These things are to them what gold and jewels are to us.

We would give, gladly, a score of boatloads of vegetables for a diamond the size of a pea; and these glass beads are as valuable, in their eyes, as diamonds are in ours." After buying up the main stock, they trafficked with the natives for the little ornaments they wore, necklaces and bracelets cunningly worked with bright shells and seeds, and weapons of curiously carved wood.

At nightfall the other boats returned, laden down with fruit and vegetables.
"'We must buy no more of these commodities, at present," Captain Reuben said, when he saw what had been purchased on board.

"We have got enough to last us as long as they will keep, eat we never so heartily;" and indeed, the next day a number of the crew were ill, from the quantity of fruit that they consumed.
This, however, soon passed off, and the change of diet did great good.

The scurvy disappeared, and in a short time all--even those who had suffered most--were again fit for duty.
The following morning, Roger and Pengarvan went ashore with the starboard watch.