and many other things, which fhe accepted with a very good grace, and much pleasure. She took notice that I had been ill, and pointed to the shore. I understood that she meant I should go thither to perfect my recovery, and I made figns that I would go thither the next morning. When the intimated an inclination to return, I ordered the Gunner to go with her, who having fet her on fhore, attended her to her habitation, which he defcribed as being very large and well built. He said, that in this houfe fhe had many guards and domesticks, and that she had another at a little distance, which was enclofed in lattice-work. 1767. July. The next morning I went on fhore for the first time, Sunday 12. and my Princess, or rather Queen, for fuch by her authority the appeared to be, foon after came to me, followed by many of her attendants. As the perceived that my disorder had left me very weak, the ordered her people to take me in their arms, and carry me not only over the river, but all the way to her house; and observing that some of the people who were with me, particularly the first Lieutenant and Purfer, had also been fick, fhe caufed them alfo to be carried in the fame manner, and a guard, which I had ordered out upon the occafion, followed. In our way, a vast multitude crouded about us, but upon her waving her hand, without speaking a word, they withdrew, and left us a free paffage. When we approached near her house, a great number of both fexes came out to meet her: these she presented to me, after having intimated by figns that they were her relations, and taking hold of my hand, fhe made them kifs it. We then entered the house, which covered a piece of ground 327 feet long, and 42 feet broad. It confifted of a roof, thatched with palm leaves, and raised upon 39 pillars on each fide, and 14 in the middle. The ridge of the thatch, on the infide, was 30 feet high, and the fides of the houfe, to the edge of the roof, were 12 feet high; all below the roof being open. As foon as we entered the house, she made us fit down, and then calling four young girls, the affifted them to take off my fhoes, draw down my stockings, and pull off my coat, and then directed them to fmooth down the skin, and gently chafe it with their hands: the fame operation 1767. July. Mond. 13. was alfo performed upon the first Lieutenant and the Purfer, but upon none of those who appeared to be in health. While this was doing, our Surgeon, who had walked till he was very warm, took off his wig to cool and refresh himself; a sudden exclamation of one of the Indians who faw it, drew the attention of the rest, and in a moment every eye was fixed upon the prodigy, and every operation was fufpended: the whole affembly stood fome time motionlefs, in filent aftonishment, which could not have been more strongly expreffed if they had difcovered that our friend's limbs had been screwed on to the trunk; in a fhort time, however, the young women who were chafing us, refumed their employment, and having continued it for about half an hour, they dreffed us again, but in this they were, as may eafily be imagined, very aukward; I found great benefit, however, from the chafing, and fo did the Lieutenant and Purfer. After a little time, our generous benefactress ordered fome bales of Indian cloth to be brought out, with which the clothed me, and all that were with me, according to the fashion of the country. At first I declined the acceptance of this favour, but being unwilling not to seem pleased with what was intended to please me, I acquiefced. When we went away, the ordered a very large fow, big with young, to be taken down to the boat, and accompanied us thither herself. She had given directions to her people to carry me, as they had done when I came, but as I chofe rather to walk, fhe took me by the arm, and whenever we came to a plash of water or dirt, the lifted me over with as little trouble as it would have coft me to have lifted over a child if I had been well. The next morning I fent her, by the Gunner, fix hatchets, fix bill-hooks, and feveral other things; and when he returned, he told me that he found her giving an entertainment to a great number of people, which, he supposed, could not be less than a thousand. The meffes were all brought to her by the fervants that prepared them, the meat being put into the shells of cocoa nuts, and the shells into wooden trays, fomewhat like those used by our butchers, and fhe diftributed them with her own hands to the guests, who were feated in rows round the great house. When this was done, 1767. The fat down herself, upon a place fomewhat elevated, July. above the reft, and two women, placing themselves one on each side of her, fed her, the opening her mouth as they brought their hands up with the food. When the faw the Gunner, the ordered a mess for him; he could not certainly tell what it was, but he believed it to be fowl picked fmall, with apples cut among it, and feasoned with falt water; it was, however, very well tafted. She accepted the things I fent her, and feemed to be much pleased with them. After this correfpondence was established with the queen, provisions of every kind became much more plenty at market; but though fowls and hogs were every day brought in, we were still obliged to pay more for them than at the first, the market having been spoiled by the nails which our men had stolen and given to the women; I therefore gave orders that every man should be fearched before he went on fhore, and that no woman should be fuffered to cross the river. On the 14th, the Gunner being on fhore to trade, Tuef. 14. perceived an old woman on the other fide of the river, weeping bitterly: when she saw that she had drawn his attention upon her, she sent a young man, who stood by her, over the river to him, with a branch of the plaintain tree in his hand. When he came up, he made a long speech, and then laid down his bough at the Gunner's feet: after this he went back and brought over the old woman, another man at the fame time bringing over two large fat hogs. The woman looked round upon our people with great attention, fixing her eyes fometimes upon one, and fometimes upon another, and at laft burst into tears. The young man who brought her over the river, perceiving the Gunner's concern and astonishment, made another fpeech, longer than the firft: ftill, however the woman's diftrefs was a mystery, but at length the made him understand that her husband, and three of her fons, had been killed in the attack of the fhip. During this explanation, she was fo affected that at laft the funk down unable to speak, and the two young men, who endeavoured to fupport her, appeared to be nearly in the fame condition: they were probably two more of her 0 3 1767. July. Wednef.15. her fons, or fome very near relations. The Gunner did all in his power to footh and comfort her, and when he had in fome measure recovered her recollection, the ordered the two hogs to be delivered to him, and gave him her hand in token of friendfhip, but would accept nothing in return, though he offered her ten times as much as would have purchased the hogs at market. The next morning, I fent the Second Lieutenant, with all the boats, and fixty men, to the weftward, to look at the country, and try what was to be got. About noon he returned, having marched along the fhore near fix miles. He found the country very pleafant and populous, and abounding as well with hogs and fowls, as fruit, and other vegetables of various kinds. The inhabitants offered him no moleftation, but did not feem willing to part with any of the provifions which our people were most defirous to purchase they gave them, however, a few cocoa-nuts and plantains, and at length fold them nine hogs and a few fowls. The Lieutenant was of opinion, that they might be brought to trade freely by degrees, but the distance from the fhip was fo great, that too many men would be neceffary for a guard. He faw a great number of very large canoes upon the beach, and fome that were building. He obferved that all their tools were made of ftone, fhells, and bone, and very juftly inferred, that they had no metal of any kind. He found no quadruped among them, befides hogs and dogs, nor any earthen veffel, fo that all their food is either baked or roafted. Having no veffel in which water could be fubjected to the action of fire, they had no more idea that it could be made hot, than that it could be made folid. As the Queen was one morning at breakfaft with us on board the ship, one of her attendants, a man of fome note, and one of thofe that we thought were priests, faw the Surgeon fill the tea-pot by turning the cock of an urn that flood upun the table: having remarked this with great curiofity and attention, he prefently turned the cock, and received the water upon his hand as foon as he felt himself scalded, he roared out, and began to dance about the cabin with the most extravagant and ridiculous expreffions of pain and and astonishment: the other Indians, not being able to conceive what was the matter with him, stood staring at him in amaze, and not without fome mixture of terror. The Surgeon, however, who had innocently been the cause of the mifchief, applied a remedy, though it was fome time before the poor fellow was easy. 1767. July. On Thursday the 16th, Mr. Furneaux, my Second Thurfd. 16 Lieutenant, was taken very ill, which distressed me greatly, as the First Lieutenant was not yet recovered, and I was still in a very weak state myself: I was this day also obliged once more to punish Proctor, the Corporal of marines, for mutinous behaviour. The Queen had now been abfent feveral days; but the natives made us understand by figns, that the next day she would be with us again. Accordingly the next morning fhe came down to Friday 17. the beach, and foon after a great number of people, whom we had never seen before, brought to market provifions of every kind; and the Gunner fent off fourteen hogs, and fruit in great plenty. In the afternoon of the next day the Queen came on board, with a present of two large hogs, for she never condescended to barter, and in the evening she returned on fhore. I fent a prefent with her, by the Master, and as foon as they landed, she took him by the hand, and having made a long speech to the people that Alocked round them, she led him to her house, where The cloathed him, as she had before done me, according to the fashion of the country. Saturd, 18. The next morning he fent off a greater quantity of Sunday 19. stock than we had ever procured in one day before; it consisted of forty-eight hogs and pigs, four dozen of fowls, with bread-fruit, bananas, apples, and cocoanuts, almost without number. On the 20th, we continued to trade with good fuc- Monday 20. cefs, but in the afternoon it was discovered that Francis Pinckney, one of the feamen, had drawn the cleats to which the main fheet was belayed, and after stealing the spikes, thrown them over-board. Having fecured the offender, I called all the people together on the deck, and after taking fome pains to explain his crime, with all its aggravations, I ordered that he should be whipped |