In one of these fits, he was supposed to have run into the sea, and to have been drowned: and thus every method, which our commander had taken to stock the country with sheep and goats, proved ineffectual.

He hoped to be more successful with respect to the boars and sows and the cocks and hens, which he left in the island.
While the boatswain, one day, and a party of men, were employed in cutting broom, some of them stole several things from a private hut of the natives, in which was deposited most of the treasures they had received from the English as well as property of their own.

Complaint being made by the Indians to Captain Cook, and a particular man of the boatswain's party having been pointed out to the captain, as the person who had committed the theft, he ordered him to be punished in their presence.

With this they went away seemingly satisfied, although they did not recover any of the articles which they had lost.

It was always a maxim with our commander, to punish the least crimes which any of his people were guilty of with regard to uncivilized nations.
Their robbing us with impunity he by no means considered as a reason for our treating them in the same manner.