and found abundance of tame hogs running among the houses.  They shot down 9, which they brought away, besides many that ran away wounded.  They had but little time; for in less than an hour after they went from the ship it began to rain:  wherefore they got what they could into the boats; for I had charged them to come away if it rained.  By that time the boat was aboard and the hogs taken in it cleared up; and my men desired to make another trip thither before night; this was about 5 in the evening; and I consented, giving them order to repair on board before night.  In the close of the evening they returned accordingly with 8 hogs more, and a little live pig; and by this time the other hogs were jerked and salted.  These that came last we only dressed and corned till morning; and then sent both boats ashore for more refreshments, either of hogs or roots:  but in the night the natives had conveyed away their provisions of all sorts.  Many of them were now about the houses, and none offered to resist our boats landing, but on the contrary were so amicable that one man brought 10 or 12 coconuts, left them on the shore after he had showed them to our men, and went out of sight.  Our people finding nothing but nets and images brought some of them away; which 2 of my men brought aboard in a small canoe; and presently after, my boats came off.  I ordered the boatswain to take care of the nets, till we came at some place where they might be disposed of for some refreshment for the use of all the company:  the images I took into my own custody.

In the afternoon I sent the canoe the place from whence she had been brought; and in her, 2 axes, 2 hatchets (one of them helved) 6 knives, 6 looking-glasses, a large bunch of beads, and 4 glass bottles.  Our men drew the canoe ashore, placed the things to the best advantage in her; and came off in the pinnace which I sent to guard them.  And now, being well stocked with wood and all my water-casks full, I resolved to sail the next morning.  All the time of our stay here we had very fair weather; only sometimes in the afternoon we had a shower of rain which lasted not above an hour at most:  also some thunder and lightning with very little wind.  We had sea- and land-breezes; the former between the south-south-east, and the latter from north-east to north-west.

He names the place port Montague.  The country thereabouts described, and its produce.

This place I named port Montague in honour of my noble patron.  It lies in the latitude of 6 degrees 10 minutes south, and meridian distance from Cape St. George 151 miles west.  The country hereabouts is mountainous and woody, full of rich valleys and pleasant fresh-water brooks.  The mould in the valleys is deep and yellowish; that on the sides of the hills of a very brown colour, and not very deep, but rocky underneath; yet excellent planting land.