Soon another canoe came, from another direction, with only two men in it.

Sir Henry received them both on board, and seized them also as prisoners.

He intended to hold them as hostages, that he might thus protect himself from any hostility on the part of the natives.
One of these men upon finding himself a captive, leaped overboard and swam ashore.

Sir Henry had now three prisoners and he guarded them very closely.

Yet the natives, either from policy or from fear, made no hostile demonstrations against him.
The half Moon remained in the outer bay nine days.