After his experience of the treachery of the native, the admiral determined to build a fort to protect the party on shore.

The people, seeing these preparations, appeared in large numbers and approached, but their attitude expressed astonishment rather than hostility.

They then, laying down their arms, gathered round the little party of white men; but as they brought their women with them, the admiral concluded that no hostility was intended, and allowed them freely to mix with the whites.

Their attitude and deportment showed that they looked upon them as gods, paying worship in the most abject manner.

In order to show them that his men were but human, the admiral ordered them to eat and drink, that the people might observe that they were but men, as they.