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The fir ft day of our arrival at Annamooka, one of the 1777. 
natives had ftolen, out of the fbip, a large junk axe. I now Ma *' 
applied to Feenou to exert his authority to get it reftored to 
me ; and fo implicitly was he obeyed, that it was brought 
on board while we were at dinner. Thefe people gave us 
very frequent opportunities of remarking what expert 
thieves they were. Even fome of their Chiefs did not think 
this profeffton beneath them. On the 9th, one of them Friday 9. 
was detected carrying out of the fhip, concealed under his 
clothes, the bolt belonging to the fpun yarn winch; for 
which I fentenced him to receive a dozen lafhes, and kept 
him confined till he paid a hog for his liberty. After this, 
we were not troubled with thieves of rank. Their fervants, 
or flaves, however, were ftill employed in this dirty work ; 
and upon them a flogging feemed to make no greater im- 
preflion, than it would have done upon the main-maft. 
When any of them happened to be caught in the a£t, their 
matters, far from interceding for them, would often advife 
us to kill them. As this was a punifhment we did not 
choofe to inflict, they generally efcaped without any pu- 
nifhment at all; for they appeared to us to be equally infen- 
Able of the ftiame, and of the pain of corporal chaftifement. 
Captain Clerke, at laft, hit upon a mode of treatment, 
which, we thought, had fome effedt. He put them under 
the hands of the barber, and completely fhaved their heads; 
thus pointing them out as objects of ridicule to their coun¬ 
trymen, and enabling our people to deprive them of future 
opportunities for a repetition of their rogueries, by keeping 
them at a diftance. 
Feenou was fo fond of afibciating with us, that he dined 
on board every day ; though, fometimes, he did not partake 
of our fare,. On the 10th, fome of his fervants brought a 
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