I Also Showed Them Some Gold Dust, Which They Seemed To
Know, And Called Out "Manneel, Manneel," And Pointed Towards The
Land.
A while after these men were gone, two or three canoes came
from the flat island, and by signs invited us to their island, at
which the others seemed displeased, and used very menacing gestures
and, I believe, speeches to each other.
Night coming on, we stood
off to sea, and having but little wind all night, were driven away
to the north-west. We saw many great fires on the flat island. The
last men that came off to us were all black as those we had seen
before, with frizzled hair. They were very tall, lusty, well-shaped
men. They wear great things in their noses, and paint as the
others, but not much. They make the same signs of friendship, and
their language seems to be one; but the others had proas, and these
canoes. On the sides of some of these we saw the figures of several
fish neatly cut, and these last were not so shy as the others.
Steering away from Cave's Island south-south-east, we found a strong
current against us, which set only in some places in streams, and in
them we saw many trees and logs of wood, which drove by us. We had
but little wood aboard; wherefore I hoisted out the pinnace, and
sent her to take up some of this drift-wood. In a little time she
came aboard with a great tree in tow, which we could hardly hoist in
with all our tackles.
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