ten or twelve pounds' weight of smoke-dried beef, they would give us a
whole bullock, or cow, or anything else we could desire.

Here we observed two things that were very material to us, even essentially
so; first, we found they had a great deal of earthenware here, which they
made use of many ways as we did; particularly they had long, deep earthen
pots, which they used to sink into the ground, to keep the water which they
drunk cool and pleasant; and the other was, that they had larger canoes
than their neighbours had.

By this we were prompted to inquire if they had no larger vessels than
those we saw there, or if any other of the inhabitants had not such. They
signified presently that they had no larger boats than that they showed us;
but that on the other side of the island they had larger boats, and that
with decks upon them, and large sails; and this made us resolve to coast
round the whole island to see them; so we prepared and victualled our canoe
for the voyage, and, in a word, went to sea for the third time.

It cost us a month or six weeks' time to perform this voyage, in which time
we went on shore several times for water and provisions, and found the
natives always very free and courteous; but we were surprised one morning
early, being at the extremity of the northernmost part of the island, when
one of our men cried out, "A sail! a sail!" We presently saw a vessel a
great way out at sea; but after we had looked at it with our perspective
glasses, and endeavoured all we could to make out what it was, we could not
tell what to think of it; for it was neither ship, ketch, galley, galliot,
or like anything that we had ever seen before; all that we could make of it
was, that it went from us, standing out to sea. In a word, we soon lost
sight of it, for we were in no condition to chase anything, and we never
saw it again; but, by all that we could perceive of it, from what we saw of