of them to be seen near it.  We also left some cocks and hens in the woods in Ship Cove; but these will have a chance of falling into the hands of the natives, whose wandering way of life will hinder them from breeding, even suppose they should be taken proper care of.  Indeed, they took rather too much care of those which I had already given them, by keeping them continually confined, for fear of losing them in the woods.  The sow pig we had not seen since the day they had her from me; but we were now told she was still living, as also the old boar and sow given them by Captain Furneaux; so that there is reason to hope they may succeed.  It will be unfortunate, indeed, if every method I have taken, to provide this country with useful animals, should be frustrated.  We were likewise told, that the two goats were still alive, and running about; but I gave more credit to the first story than this.  I should have replaced them, by leaving behind the only two I had left, but had the misfortune to lose the ram soon after our arrival here, in a manner we could hardly account for.  They were both put ashore at the tents, where they seemed to thrive very well; at last, the ram was taken with fits bordering on madness.  We were at a loss to tell whether it was occasioned by any thing he had eaten, or by being stung with nettles, which were in plenty about the place; but supposed it to be the latter, and therefore did not take the care of him we ought to have done.  One night, while he was lying by the centinel, he was seized with one of these fits, and ran headlong into the sea; but soon came out again, and seemed quite easy.  Presently after, he was seized with another fit, and ran along the beach, with the she-goat after him.  Some time after she returned, but the other was never seen more.  Diligent search was made for him in the woods to no purpose; we therefore supposed he had run into the sea a second time, and had been drowned.  After this accident, it would have been in vain to leave the she-goat, as she was not with kid; having kidded but a few days before we arrived, and the kids dead.  Thus the reader will see how every method I have taken to stock this country with sheep and goats has proved ineffectual.

When I returned on board in the evening, I found our good friends the natives had brought us a large supply of fish.  Some of the officers visiting them at their habitations, saw, among them, some human thigh-bones, from which the flesh had been but lately picked.  This, and other circumstances, led us to believe that the people, whom we took for strangers this morning, were of the same tribe; that they had been out on some war expedition; and that those things they sold us, were the spoils of their enemies.  Indeed, we had some information of this sort the day before; for a number of women and children came off to us in a canoe, from whom we learnt that a party of men were then out, for whose safety they were under some apprehension; but this report found little credit with us, as we soon after saw some canoes come in from fishing, which we judged to be them.