However friendly the inhabitants might have appeared, some causes of quarrel might have arisen; and with the ship hauled up and bent over, it might have fallen into the hands of the natives, and so been destroyed, and all return to England cut off from him.
Five days after leaving Ternate he found such a place and, fetching up in a small harbor, the whole party landed, pitched tents, and entrenched themselves.

Then they took the casks and water vessels ashore and thoroughly repaired them, trimmed the ship and scraped her bottom, and so put her in a state to perform the rest of the voyage.
Greatly here were the crew astonished by the first sight of fireflies, creatures which were new to them all.

This island swarmed with crayfish, of a size sufficient to satisfy four hungry men at dinner.

These creatures never went into the sea, but kept themselves on land, digging holes in the roots of the trees, and there lodging, numbers together.

Strangely enough, too, these crayfish, when they found themselves cut off from their natural retreats, climbed up trees, and there concealed themselves in the branches.
On December the 12th they again set sail, being now among the Celebes, where they found the water shoal and coasting very dangerous.