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left them. Thefe two Chiefs became fuitors to me for fome 1777. 
goats and hogs. Accordingly, I gave to Matahouah two , Febmary ', 
goats, a male and female with kid; and to Tomaton- 
geauooranuc two pigs, a hoar and a fow. They made me 
a promife not to kill them; though I muft own I put no 
great faith in this. The animals which Captain Furneaux 
fent on fhore here, and which foon after fell into the hands 
of the natives, I was now told were all dead; but I could 
get no intelligence about the fate of thofe I had left in 
Weft Bay, and in Cannibal Cove, when I was here in the 
courfe of my laft Voyage. However, all the natives, whom 
I converfed with, agreed, that poultry are now to be met 
with wild in the woods behind Ship Cove; and I was after¬ 
ward informed, by the two youths who went away with us, 
that Tiratou, a popular Chief amongft them, had a great 
many cocks and hens in his feparate pofleffton, and one of 
the fows. 
On my prefent arrival at this place, I fully intended to 
have left not only goats and hogs, but Bleep, and a young- 
bull, with two heifers, if I could have found either a Chief 
powerful enough to protedf and keep them, or a place 
where there might be a probability of their being concealed 
from thofe who would ignorantly attempt to deftroy them. 
But neither the one nor the other prefented itfelf to me. 
Tiratou was now abfent; and Tringoboohee, whom I had 
met with during my laft Voyage *, and who feemed to be a 
perfon of much confequence at that time, had been killed 
five months ago, with about feventy perfons of his tribe; 
and I could not learn that there now remained in our 
neighbourhood any tribe, whofe numbers could fecure to 
* See Cook’s Voyage, VoL ii. p. 157, 
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