under the command of Lieutenant Edgcumbe.  Soon after I went myself, with my friend Attago, Captain Furneaux, and several of the gentlemen.  At landing, we found the chief, who presented me with a pig.  After this, Captain Furneaux and I took a walk into the country, with Mr Hodges, to make drawings of such places and things as were most interesting.  When this was done, we returned on board to dinner, with my friend and two other chiefs; one of which sent a hog on board the Adventure for Captain Furneaux, some hours before, without stipulating for any return.  The only instance of this kind.  My friend took care to put me in mind of the pig the old king gave me in the morning; for which I now gave a chequed shirt and a piece of red cloth.  I had tied them up for him to carry ashore; but with this he was not satisfied.  He wanted to have them put on him, which was no sooner done, than he went on deck, and shewed himself to all his countrymen.  He had done the same thing in the morning with the sheet I gave him.  In the evening we all went on shore again, where we found the old king, who took to himself every thing my friend and the others had got.

The different trading parties were so successful to-day as to procure for both ships a tolerably good supply of refreshments.  In consequence of which, I, the next morning, gave every one leave to purchase what curiosities and other things they pleased.  After this, it was astonishing to see with what eagerness every one caught at every thing he saw.  It even went so far as to become the ridicule of the natives, who offered pieces of sticks and stones to exchange.  One waggish boy took a piece of human excrement on the end of a stick, and held it out to every one he met with.

This day, a man got into the master’s cabin, through the outside scuttle, and took out some books and other things.  He was discovered just as he was getting out into his canoe, and pursued by one of our boats, which obliged him to quit the canoe and take to the water.  The people in the boat made several attempts to lay hold of him; but he as often dived under the boat, and at last having unshipped the rudder, which rendered her ungovernable, by this means he got clear off.  Some other very daring thefts were committed at the landing-place.  One fellow took a seaman’s jacket out of the boat, and carried it off, in spite of all that our people in her could do.  Till he was both pursued and fired at by them, he would not part with it; nor would he have done it then, had not his landing been intercepted by some of us who were on shore.  The rest of the natives, who were very numerous, took very little notice of the whole transaction; nor were they the least alarmed when the man was fired at.