We rode right against the mouth of a small river, where I hoped to find fresh water.

Some of the natives standing on a small point at the river's mouth, I sent a small shot over their heads to frighten them, which it did effectually.

In the afternoon I sent my boat ashore to the natives who stood upon the point by the river's mouth with a present of cocoa-nuts; when the boat was come near the shore, they came running into the water, and put their nuts into the boat.

Then I made a signal for the boat to come aboard, and sent both it and the yawl into the river to look for fresh water, ordering the pinnace to lie near the river's mouth, while the yawl went up to search.

In an hour's time they returned aboard with some barrecoes full fresh of water; which they had taken up about half a mile up the river.