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Opoorage  or Mercury Bay

into a bay which appeard well shelterd by Islands & gave hopes for the morn   several Canoes with people like the last came about the ship & talkd very civily to us   a bird was shot from the ship in their sight as it swam on the water   this they took up & tied to a fishing line that was towing astern for which they were rewarded with a peice of cloth   notwisthstanding all this they became very saucy  Just at night singing their song of Defiance & attempting to tow away the buoy of the anchor   2 or 3 musquets were fird over them which had not the least effect   they threatned hard & promisd that tomorrow they would return with more force & kill us all & dispatchd a boat who told us that he was going to another part of the bay for assistance.

4. Our freinds meant to be still better than their words for they visited us twice last in the night intending I suppose to wake us if we should be asleep  but as they found us not so they went away as they came without saying a single word   in the morn they returnd with the earlyest day break   about 150 men in 10 or 12 Canoes all armd with pikes lances & stones   we all got up to see the event   an hour & a half was spent in

 

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