20£ 
THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
fills of above lixty houfes there; but, perhaps, about forty 
more Hand {battered about, farther up the country, toward 
the burying-place. 
After we had examined, very carefully, every thing that 
was to be feen about the moral , and Mr. Webber had taken 
drawings of it, and of the adjoining country, we returned 
by a different route. I found a great crowd affenibled at the 
beach ; and a brifk trade for pigs, fowls, and roots, going 
on there, with the greateft good order; though I did not 
obferve any particular perfon, who took the lead amongft 
.the reft of his countrymen. At noon, I went on board to 
dinner, and then fent Mr. King, to command the party 
afhore. He was to have gone upon that fervice in the 
morning, but was then detained in the fhip, to make lunar 
obfervations. In the afternoon, I landed again, accompa¬ 
nied by Captain Clerke, with a view to make another ex- 
curlion up the country. But, before this could be put in 
execution, the day was too far fpent; fo that I laid afide my 
intention for the prefent; and it fo happened, that I had not 
another opportunity. At fun-fet, I brought every body on 
board; having procured, in the courfe of the day, nine 
tons of water; and, by exchanges, chiefly for nails and 
pieces of iron, about feventy or eighty pigs, a few fowls, a 
quantity of potatoes, and a few plantains, and taro roots. 
Thefe people merited our belt commendations, in this com¬ 
mercial intercourfe, never once attempting to cheat us, 
either afhore, or along-flde the Ihips. Some of them, in¬ 
deed, as already mentioned, at firft betrayed a thievifli dif- 
polition; or rather, they thought, that they had a right to 
every thing they could lay their hands upon; but they foon 
laid alide a conduct, which, we. convinced them, they could 
not perfevere in with impunity. 
Amongft 
1778. 
January. 
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