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of them were middle-aged, the other two were young men about eighteen or twentyyears old.. To thefe we gave boiled rice, and with it turtle and manatee boiled. Theydid greedily devour what we gave them, but took no notice of the fhip, or any thingm it, and when they were fet on land again, they ran away as fall as they could. Atour firft coming, before we were acquainted with them, or they with us, a companyof them who lived on the main, came juft againft our fhip, and Handing on a prettyhigh bank, threatened us with their fwords and lances, by fhaking them at us. At laftthe captain ordered the drum to be beaten, which was done of a fudden with muchvigour, purpofely to (care the poor creatures. They hearing the noife, ran away asfait as jhey could drive ; and when they ran away in hafte, they would cry “ gurry,gurry, fpeaking deep in the throat. Thofe inhabitants alfo that live on the main,\vould always run away from us ; yet we took feveral of them. For, as I have alreadyoblerved, they had fuch bad eyes, that they could not fee us till we came clofe tothem. We did always give them victuals, and let them go again, but the i(landers,a ter our firft time of being among them, did not ftir for us.

When we had been here about a week, we haled our (hip into a fmall fandy cove,-at a fpring-tide, as far as (he would float; and at low water (he was left dry, and theland dry without us near half a mile; for the fea rifeth and falleth here about fiveiathom. The flood runs north by eaft, and the ebb fouth by weft. All the neap-tides we lay wholly aground, for the fea did not come near us by about a hundredy ar k a d therefore time enough to clean our (hip’s bottom, which we did veryWe 'a ° ur men la y afhore in a tent, where our fails were mending ; and

food n ei " S ^ r ° U ®^ t home turtle and manatee every day, which was our conftant

f ^ Ve ^ a y ^ere, I d'd endeavour to perfuade our men to go to fome Englifh

tattory • but was threatened to be turned a(hore,. and left here for it. This made medehft, and patiently wait for fome more convenient place and opportunity to leavethem than here, which I did hope I (hould accomplifti in a fliort time; becaufe theyid. intend, when they went from hence, to bear down towards Cape Comorin . Int eir way thither they defigned alfo to vifit the ifland Cocos, which lieth in latitudewe ve degrees twelve minutes north, by our drafts; hoping there to find of that1 » the ifland having its name from thence..