At night our boats came aboard with wood, and the next morning I went myself with both boats up the river to the watering-place, carrying with me all such trifles and iron-work as I thought most proper to induce them to a commerce with us; but I found them very shy and roguish.  I saw but 2 men and a boy:  one of the men by some signs was persuaded to come to the boat’s side, where I was; to him I gave a knife, a string of beads, and a glass bottle; the fellow called out, “cocos, cocos,” pointing to a village hard by, and signified to us that he would go for some; but he never returned to us.  And thus they had frequently of late served our men.  I took 8 or 9 men with me and marched to their houses, which I found very mean; and their doors made fast with withes.

I visited 3 of their villages; and, finding all the houses thus abandoned by the inhabitants, who carried with them all their hogs etc., I brought out of their houses some small fishing-nets in recompense for those things they had received of us.  As we were coming away we saw 2 of the natives; I showed them the things that we carried with us and called to them “cocos, cocos,” to let them know that I took these things because they had not made good what they had promised by their signs, and by their calling out “cocos.”  While I was thus employed the men in the yawl filled 2 hogsheads of water and all the barrecoes.  About 1 in the afternoon I came aboard and found all my officers and men very importunate to go to that bay where the hogs were said to be.  I was loth to yield to it, fearing they would deal too roughly with the natives.  By 2 o’clock in the afternoon many black clouds gathered over the land, which I thought would deter them from their enterprise; but they solicited me the more to let them go.  At last I consented, sending those commodities I had ashore with me in the morning, and giving them a strict charge to deal by fair means, and to act cautiously for their own security.  The bay I sent them to was about 2 miles from the ship.  As soon as they were gone I got all things ready that, if I saw occasion, I might assist them with my great guns.  When they came to land the natives in great companies stood to resist them; shaking their lances and threatening them; and some were so daring as to wade into the sea, holding a target in one hand and a lance in the other.  Our men held up to them such commodities as I had sent, and made signs of friendship; but to no purpose; for the natives waved them off.  Seeing therefore they could not be prevailed upon to a friendly commerce, my men, being resolved to have some provision among them, fired some muskets to scare them away; which had the desired effect upon all but 2 or 3, who stood still in a menacing posture till the boldest dropped his target and ran away; they supposed he was shot in the arm:  he and some others felt the smart of our bullets but none were killed; our design being rather to fright than to kill them.  Our men landed