When we came by the point, I saw a great number of men peeping from under the rocks: I ordered a shot to be fired close by, to scare them.

The shot grazed between us and the point, and, mounting again, flew over the point, and grazed a second time just by them.

We were obliged to sail along close by the bays; and, seeing multitudes sitting under the trees, I ordered a third gun to be fired among the cocoa-nut-trees to scare them; for my business being to wood and water, I thought it necessary to strike some terror into the inhabitants, who were very numerous, and (by what I saw now, and had formerly experienced) treacherous.

After this I sent my boat to sound; they had first forty, then thirty, and at last twenty fathom water.

We followed the boat, and came to anchor about a quarter of a mile from the shore, in twenty-six fathom water, fine black sand and ooze.