In the morning we weighed again, and ran farther in, thinking to have shallower water; but we ran within a mile of the shore, and came to in thirty-eight fathom good soft holding ground.

While we were under sail two canoes came off within call of us.

They spoke to us, but we did not understand their language nor signs.

We waved to them to come aboard, and I called to them in the Malayan language to do the same, but they would not.

Yet they came so nigh us that we could show them such things as we had to truck with them; yet neither would this entice them to come on board, but they made signs for us to come ashore, and away they went.