I Sent Ashore Commodities To Purchase Hogs, &C. Being Informed That
The Natives Have Plenty Of Them, As Also Of Yams And Other Good
Roots; But My Men Returned Without Getting Anything That I Sent Them
For, The Natives Being Unwilling To Trade With Us.
Yet they admired
our hatchets and axes, but would part with nothing but cocoa-nuts,
which they used to climb the trees for; and so soon as they gave
them our men, they beckoned to them to be gone, for they were much
afraid of us.
The 18th I sent both boats again for water, and before noon they had
filled all my casks. In the afternoon I sent them both to cut wood;
but seeing about forty natives standing on the bay at a small
distance from our men, I made a signal for them to come aboard
again, which they did, and brought me word that the men which we saw
on the bay were passing that way, but were afraid to come nigh them.
At four o'clock I sent both the boats again for more wood, and they
returned in the evening. Then I called my officers to consult
whether it were convenient to stay here longer, and endeavour a
better acquaintance with these people, or go to sea. My design of
tarrying here longer was, if possible, to get some hogs, goats,
yams, or other roots, as also to get some knowledge of the country
and its product. My officers unanimously gave their opinions for
staying longer here.
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