Chap. V. FUNERAL OF A TRADER. 135 
having engaged the natives to postpone their expedition 
in order to take part in the treaty at East Bay, we re- 
turned to the ship in a boat. During our absence, 
Jacky Love, the trader whom I mentioned as having 
obtained the affection of the natives by his kindness 
and generosity, had died. Two hundred natives fol- 
lowed his body to the grave ; and they subsequently 
erected a monument over it such as usually graces the 
tomb of a great chieftain. This was a canoe stuck 
upright in the ground, some 20 feet high ; painted in 
fanciful designs with red and black dye, and edged all 
round with a fringe of feathers. 
From the 1st to the 8th of November was spent in 
negotiating with the natives, who collected to the 
number of three hundred, and formed encampments on 
the different islands and beaches near the ship, for a 
total cession of all their rights and claims. The same 
full explanations were made that had been used in the 
two former cases ; and the same care taken that ample 
deliberation and due calmness should insure the per- 
fect validity and truth of the transaction. 
Much difficulty occurred, both during these discus- 
sions and at the distribution of the goods, in conse- 
quence of the absence of cMeftains of great influence 
to take the lead in treating and speaking for the others. 
Innumerable petty disagreements had to be put an end 
to, and jealousies to be appeased ; and as no one chief 
possessed sufficient authority to undertake this task, 
much more trouble and annoyance necessarily devolved 
upon Colonel Wakefield. His usual patience, deter- 
mination, and good temper did not fail him ; and he 
fully succeeded in conciliating their universal good- 
will. 
The result of this equality of authority among so 
wild a rabble gave rise to a disagreeable scene, during 
