given, I sent all the boats off but one, with which I staid, having a good many of the natives about me, who behaved with their usual courtesy.  I made them so sensible of my intention, that long before the marines came, Mr Clerke’s musket was brought; but they used many excuses to divert me from insisting on the other.  At length Mr Edgcumbe arriving with the marines, this alarmed them so much, that some fled.  The first step I took was to seize on two large double sailing canoes, which were in the cove.  One fellow making resistance, I fired some small shot at him, and sent him limping off.  The natives being now convinced that I was in earnest, all fled; but on my calling to them, many returned; and, presently after, the other musket was brought, and laid down at my feet.  That moment, I ordered the canoes to be restored, to shew them on what account they were detained.  The other things we had lost being of less value, I was the more indifferent about them.  By this time the launch was ashore for another turn of water, and we were permitted to fill the casks without any one daring to come near us; except one man, who had befriended us during the whole affair, and seemed to disapprove of the conduct of his countrymen.

On my returning from the pond to the cove, I found a good many people collected together, from whom we understood that the man I had fired at was dead.  This story I treated as improbable, and addressed a man, who seemed of some consequence, for the restitution of a cooper’s adze we had lost in the morning.  He immediately sent away two men, as I thought, for it; but I soon found that we had greatly mistaken each other; for instead of the adze, they brought the wounded man, stretched out on a board, and laid him down by me, to all appearance dead.  I was much moved at the sight; but soon saw my mistake, and that he was only wounded in the hand and thigh.  I, therefore, desired he might be carried out of the sun, and sent for the surgeon to dress his wounds.  In the mean time, I addressed several people for the adze; for as I had now nothing else to do, I determined to have it.  The one I applied the most to, was an elderly woman, who had always a great deal to say to me, from my first landing; but, on this occasion, she gave her tongue full scope.  I understood but little of her eloquence; and all I could gather from her arguments was, that it was mean in me to insist on the return of so trifling a thing.  But when she found I was determined, she and three or four more women went away; and soon after the adze was brought me, but I saw her no more.  This I was sorry for, as I wanted to make her a present, in return for the part she had taken in all our transactions, private as well as public.  For I was no sooner returned from the pond, the first time I landed, than this old lady presented to me a girl, giving me to understand she was at my service.  Miss, who probably had received her instructions, wanted, as a preliminary