CHAPTER XI.
Farther Transactions of the Colony in November, 1790.
During the intervals of duty, our greatest source of entertainment now lay in cultivating the acquaintance of our new friends, the natives.

Ever liberal of communication, no difficulty but of understanding each other subsisted between us.

Inexplicable contradictions arose to bewilder our researches which no ingenuity could unravel and no credulity reconcile.
Baneelon, from being accustomed to our manners, and understanding a little English, was the person through whom we wished to prosecute inquiry, but he had lately become a man of so much dignity and consequence, that it was not always easy to obtain his company.

Clothes had been given to him at various times, but he did not always condescend to wear them.

One day he would appear in them, and the next day he was to be seen carrying them in a net slung around his neck.