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brought garments made of them, and another fort of cloth¬ 
ing made of the bark of a tree, or fome plant like hemp; 
weapons, fuch as bows, arrows, and fpears ; fifh-hooks, 
and inilruments of various kinds ; wooden vizors of many 
different monftrous figures; a fort of woollen fluff, or 
blanketing; bags filled with red ochre; pieces of carved 
work; beads ; and feveral other little ornaments of thin 
brafs and iron, fhaped like a horfe-fhoe, which they hang 
at their nofes; and feveral duffels, or pieces of iron, fixed to 
handles. From their ppffefling which metals, we could 
infer that they.had either been vifited before by fome ci¬ 
vilized nation, or had connedions with tribes on their con- 
tment, who had communication with them. But the moft 
extraordinary of all the articles which they brought to the 
fhips for fale, were human fkulls, and hands not yet quite 
ftripped of the fiefh, which they made our people plainly 
underhand they had eaten; and, indeed, fome of them 
had evident marks that they had been upon the fire. We 
had but too much reafon to fufped, from this circum- 
flance, that the horrid pradice of feeding on their ene¬ 
mies is as prevalent here, as we had found it to be at New 
Zealand and other South Sea Illands. For the various ar¬ 
ticles which they brought, they took in exchange knives, 
duffels, pieces of iron and tin, nails, looking-glaffes, but¬ 
tons, or any kind of metal. Glafs beads they were not fond 
of; and cloth of every fort they rejeded. 
We employed the next day in hauling our fhips into the 
cove, where they were moored head and flern, fattening 
our hawfers to the trees on fhore. On heaving up the an¬ 
chor of the Refolution, we found, notwithflanding the great 
depth of water in which it was let go, that there were rocks 
at the bottom. Thefe had done fome confiderable damage 
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March. 
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