Presents of iron, beads, and a looking-glass were given to them; but it was observed that the chief, on leaving the ship, took possession of everything that had been distributed.

One of them showed some signs of dissatisfaction; but after a little altercation they joined noses and were reconciled.
The _Bounty_ anchored at Anamooka on the 23rd April; and an old lame man, named Tepa, whom Bligh had known here in 1777, and immediately recollected, came on board along with others from different islands in the vicinity.

This man having formerly been accustomed to the English manner of speaking their language, the Commander found he could converse with him tolerably well.

He told him that the cattle which had been left at Tongataboo had all bred, and that the old ones were yet living.

Being desirous of seeing the ship, he and his companions were taken below, and the bread-fruit and other plants were shown to them, on seeing which they were greatly surprised.
'I landed,' says Bligh, 'in order to procure some bread-fruit plants to supply the place of one that was dead, and two or three others that were a little sickly.