About one in the afternoon I came aboard, and found all my officers and men very importunate to go to that bay where the hogs were said to be.

I was loth to yield to it, fearing they would deal too roughly with the natives.

By two o'clock in the afternoon many black clouds gathered over the land, which I thought would deter them from their enterprise; but they solicited me the more to let them go.

At last I consented, sending those commodities I had ashore with me in the morning, and giving them a strict charge to deal by fair means, and to act cautiously for their own security.

The bay I sent them to was about two miles from the ship.