Our navigators had not long been at anchor, before a number of canoes, filled with natives, came alongside of the ships.

However, very few of them would venture on board; which appeared the more extraordinary, as the captain was well known to them all, and they could not be insensible how liberally he had behaved to them on former occasions.
There was one man in particular, whom he had treated with remarkable kindness, during the whole of his last stay in this place; and yet, neither professions of friendship, nor presents, could prevail upon him to enter the Resolution.
There was a real cause for this shyness on the part of the New Zealanders.

A dreadful event had happened to some of Captain Furneaux's crew, while he lay in Queen Charlotte's Sound, after he had finally separated from Captain Cook, in the former voyage.

Ten men, who had been sent out in the large cutter to gather wild greens, for the ship's company, were killed in a skirmish with the natives.

What was the cause of the quarrel could not be ascertained, as not one of the company survived to relate the story.