and struck one of our most friendly chiefs, who was our nearest neighbour, and also took his gold-laced hat from him.  At this a great commotion taken place; and the Doctor interfered to make peace, as we could all understand one another, but to no purpose; and at last they became so outrageous that the Doctor, fearing he might get into trouble, left the house, and made the best of his way to the nearest wood, leaving me to do as well as I could among them.  I was so enraged with the Governor, that I could have wished to have seen him tied fast to a tree and flogged for his behaviour; but I had not people enough to cope with his party.  I therefore thought of a stratagem to appease the riot.  Recollecting a passage I had read in the life of Columbus, when he was amongst the Indians in Mexico or Peru, where, on some occasion, he frightened them, by telling them of certain events in the heavens, I had recourse to the same expedient; and it succeeded beyond my most sanguine expectations.  When I had formed my determination, I went in the midst of them; and, taking hold of the Governor, I pointed up to the heavens.  I menaced him and the rest:  I told them God lived there, and that he was angry with them, and they must not quarrel so; that they were all brothers, and if they did not leave off, and go away quietly, I would take the book (pointing to the Bible), read, and tell God to make them dead.  This was something like magic.  The clamour immediately ceased, and I gave them some rum and a few other things; after which they went away peaceably; and the Governor afterwards gave our neighbour, who was called Captain Plasmyah, his hat again.  When the Doctor returned, he was exceedingly glad at my success in thus getting rid of our troublesome guests.  The Musquito people within our vicinity, out of respect to the Doctor, myself and his people, made entertainments of the grand kind, called in their tongue tourrie or dryckbot.  The English of this expression is, a feast of drinking about, of which it seems a corruption of language.  The drink consisted of pine apples roasted, and casades chewed or beaten in mortars; which, after lying some time, ferments, and becomes so strong as to intoxicate, when drank in any quantity.  We had timely notice given to us of the entertainment.  A white family, within five miles of us, told us how the drink was made, and I and two others went before the time to the village, where the mirth was appointed to be held; and there we saw the whole art of making the drink, and also the kind of animals that were to be eaten there.  I cannot say the sight of either the drink or the meat were enticing to me.  They had some thousands of pine apples roasting, which they squeezed, dirt and all, into a canoe they had there for the purpose.  The casade drink was in beef barrels and other vessels, and looked exactly like hog-wash.  Men, women, and children, were thus employed in roasting the pine apples, and squeezing them with their hands.