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 ' 00 SURVEY'OF'THE INTERROPICAL .lm. one gun, which we' fired purposely to scare them. �,ug. so. The island was so small that' they eould not hide themselves; but they were much' disordered at our landing,. especially the women and 'chil- dren; for we went directly.to their camp.. The lustiest of the women snatching up their infants ran away .howling, and the little children nm after squeaking and bawling; but the men stood still. Some of the women,' and such people as could not go from us, lay still by a fire, mRIdug a doleful noise, as. if we had been eoming to devour them: .but' when they saw we did not intend. to b_qn them, they were pretty quizt, aud the rest that fled from us at our first coming, �returned again. .This. their place of dwelling was only a fire, with. a few boughs before it, set up on the side the winds was of. "After: we had been.here a little while, the men began t.o be familiar, and we clothed some 'of them; designing to have some service of them .for it; for.,we found some wells of. water here, and intended to carry two or three barrels of it aboard. But' it being somewhat troublesome to carry to. the canoes, we. thought. to. have made �these men to have carried it for us, and therefore ,we gave them some old clothes; to one. an aid pair of bree .ches, to another a ragged shirt, to the third' a jacket. that was scarce worth. owning;

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