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was immediately obvious, and all the exertions of Mr. Harris at the tent and the Master's Mate at the boat were insufficient to keep them back; in this situation it was impossible to get the boat away, her Masts, Sails Oars. Provisions and Water being on shore it was therefore thought advisable to temporise and wait my return if possible; for this purpose bread, meat & two pieces of blankets were given them; these condescensions however seemed only to increase their boldness, and it was by force alone that the Tomahawks and peoples blankets were wrested from them; this was the situation when after examining heaving down Cove, I was returning slowing along shore, for the purpose of sounding, when about a mile from the tent I first perceived the Natives surrounding it, and at the same moment sixty or seventy appeared in a close body on the beach opposite my boat. The greater part of these had war spears, and while running towards the tent with all their speed, I shouted and hollowed withÂ
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