In the morning George came on board, and, contrary to his usual custom of stopping to speak with those whom he met, he hurried down below, and went through the ship with rapid anxiety. It was supposed he had heard of the guns being replaced in their carriages, and that the circumstance had excited his suspicions, for having examined the ship very minutely he resumed his composure: this was but a temporary calm.

A girl of his tribe, who had been some days in the ship with one of the men, had taken, contrary to the knowledge of her protector, a string of beads, which she gave to George, and which he tied round his neck; while the real owner, recognising his property, asked him, as he positively declared, in a very civil manner to return it. Some one a few minutes before had been so thoughtless as to give him a glass of grog, the effects of which, added to the supposed insult of demanding the beads, threw him into such a violent rage, that, stripping off his clothes, he rushed upon deck, ordered

every one of his family instantly to go down into his canoe, which was alongside, and declared his intention forthwith to go and drive

the carpenter and the white men out of the woods, and not to give the vessel a single spar. The confusion among his family, most of whom were women and children, was immense: the presents they had received as to clothing or any thing else, he deprived them of, and flung them upon the capstan, not forgetting his own hat and shirt, upon which a few moments before he set the highest value; and, taking a rope's end, applied it without distinction of sex to those of his tribe who seemed at all dilatory in obeying his orders. During this scene, he ran up and down the deck, nearly naked, exclaiming "Me gentleman!" and exhibiting in action. and countenance the most violent and savage ferocity.

The storm, however, subsided almost as rapidly as it came on; his senses seemed suddenly to return to him; and, ordering his

family below, he declared that all was a shenerica, or humbug, and that he did not mean any harm by what he did. A short time after, having resumed his clothes, he appeared upon the deck with the man who had accidentally been the cause of the tumult, and, taking him by the arm, used every effort to convince the bystanders that he had forgot the injury. Heavy rain during the night.

June 29th, Thursday. Foggy with rain, thermometer 60°.

In the afternoon, Tippooi arrived with a spar. His wife and child had been two or three days on board, and when she came on the deck to meet her husband, for some reason which we could not discover, he instantly struck her. They appeared, however, in a few minutes to be perfectly good friends. 30th, Friday. Foggy and showery, thermometer 60°.

In the morning, George, his brother Tippooi, and their families, took their departure, apparently satisfied with their reception. In

the Bay of Islands such had been the want of moral restraint among the natives, that fathers and mothers, whether chiefs or not, took their daughters to the ship, and handed them over to whoever chose to receive them, without any stipulation as to the reward they might receive, or any reference to the condition of the person to whom they were consigned. The custom here was different. The females were exhibited in fewer numbers, and their relatives manifested an avidity for lucre, in proposing conditions on which they would permit them to visit the ship.

Tippooi, who trafficked in this way to some extent, had left a girl on board in the morning, whom he seemed to value so highly that her purchaser had paid more than the usual stipend for her. The latter considering himself perfectly safe in the possession of his property, was not a little surprised by the appearance of the carpenter in the evening, who came down express from George's village, to say, that the moment Tippooi arrived

there, a violent quarrel had ensued between him and his brother Ehoodoo; that every one

of the natives had abandoned their work, and declared their determination not to return to it until the woman Tippooi had left on board was restored. She was, of course, given up, and desired to quit the ship at daylight the next morning.

July 1st, Saturday. Fine, thermometer 50°.

2d, Sunday. Fine, thermometer 42°. Several of the men went to Teperree's pah, to amuse themselves: they were received in the most friendly manner by the natives; and such as chose to return on board before a boat was sent, were brought off by them in their canoes. Either in consequence of the badness of the weather, or because the ship was no longer attractive from its novelty, few trading people came near her during the week, and the supply of vegetables was scanty. During the whole of the day, the woman, who had been the cause of the disturbance, and who had again returned, re