and the rest of our people were sitting.  Tupia soon prevailed upon them to lay down their arms, and come forward without them:  He then made signs that they should sit down by him, with which they complied, and seemed to be under no apprehension or constraint:  Several more of us then going ashore, they expressed some jealousy lest we should get between them and their arms; we took care, however, to shew them that we had no such intention, and having joined them, we made them some more presents, as a farther testimony of our good-will, and our desire to obtain theirs.  We continued together, with the utmost cordiality, till dinner-time, and then giving them to understand that we were going to eat, we invited them, by signs, to go with us:  This, however, they declined, and as soon as we left them, they went away in their canoe.  One of these men was somewhat above the middle age, the other three were young; they were in general of the common stature, but their limbs were remarkably small; their skin was of the colour of wood soot, or what would be called a dark chocolate colour; their hair was black, but not woolly; it was short cropped, in some lank, and in others curled.  Dampier says, that the people whom he saw on the western coast of this country wanted two of their fore-teeth, but these had no such defect.  Some part of their bodies had been painted red, and the upper-lip and breast of one of them was painted with streaks of white, which he called Carbanda; their features were far from disagreeable, their eyes were lively, and their teeth even and white; their voices were soft and tunable, and they repeated many words after us with great facility.  In the night, Mr Gore and the master returned with the long-boat, and brought one turtle and a few shell-fish.  The yawl had been left upon the shoal with six men, to make a farther trial for turtle.

The next morning, we had another visit from four of the natives; three of them had been with us before, but the fourth was a stranger, whose name, as we learnt from his companions who introduced him, was Yaparico.  This gentleman was distinguished by an ornament of a very striking appearance:  It was the bone of a bird, nearly as thick as a man’s finger, and five or six inches long, which he had thrust into a hole made in the gristle that divides the nostrils.  Of this we had seen one instance, and only one, in New Zealand; but upon examination, we found that among all these people this part of the nose was perforated, to receive an ornament of the same kind:  They had also holes in their ears, though nothing was then hanging to them, and had bracelets upon the upper part of their arms, made of plaited hair; so that, like the inhabitants of Terra del Fuego, they seem to be fond of ornament, though they are absolutely without apparel; and one of them, to whom I had given part of an old shirt, instead of throwing it over any part of his body, tied it as a fillet round his head.  They brought with them a fish, which they gave us, as we supposed, in return for the fish that we had given them the day before.  They seemed to be much pleased, and in no haste to leave us; but seeing some of our gentlemen examine their canoe with great curiosity and attention, they were alarmed, and jumping immediately into it, paddled away without speaking a word.