At length, however, he was caught taking things which did not belong to him, and handing them out of the quarter gallery.

Various complaints of the like nature being, at the same time, made against the natives who were on deck, our commander turned them all out of the ship.

His cabin guest was very rapid in his retreat; and the captain was so exasperated at his behaviour, that after the earee had gotten to some distance from the Resolution, he fired two muskets over his head, by which he was so terrified that he quitted his canoe and took to the water.

Captain Cook then sent a boat to take the canoe; but when the boat approached the shore, the people on land began to pelt her with stones.

The captain, therefore, being in some pain for her safety, as she was unarmed, went himself in another boat to protect her, and ordered a great gun, loaded with ball, to be fired along the coast, which made all the Indians retire from the shore, and he was suffered to bring away two canoes without the least show of opposition.