At a visit, on the 12th, from a family of the natives, the captain, perceiving they approached the ship with great caution, met them in a boat, which he quitted when he came near them, and went into their canoe.

After all, he could not prevail upon them to go on board the Resolution; but at length they put on shore in a little creek, and seating themselves abreast the English vessel, entered into familiar conversation with several of the officers and seamen; in which they paid a much greater regard to some, whom they probably mistook for females, than to others.

So well indeed, were they now reconciled to our voyagers, that they took up their quarters nearly within the distance of a hundred yards from the ship's watering place.

Captain Cook, in his interview with them, had caused the bagpipes and fife to play, and the drum to beat.

The two former they heard with apparent insensibility; but the latter excited in them a certain degree of attention.
On the 18th, a chief, with whom some connexions had already been formed, was induced, together with his daughter, to come on board the Resolution.