him, intimating to the stranger that he must not come within it; a prohibition to which he too yielded. The party made few discoveries; their progress, especially in their return on the 11th, was much impeded by squally winds: the cutter was nearly lost, by suddenly filling with water, and they were obliged to throw several things overboard, before they could free her, and stop the leak she had sprung.
The Captain resolving to leave a breed of hogs, as well as of dogs, in this island, took a young boar and sow in a boat for Teabooma, on the 12th, and landed with them in the mangrove creek, at the village which he first visited in quest of water. Being informed that the chief lived at some distance, he told the guide who had conducted the party to the hills, that he intended to leave the hogs here; but when he offered them to a grave old man, the latter shook his head, and with others present, desired them: to be taken into the boat again. The Captain not offering to comply with their wishes, the guide, after some consultation, desired him to take them to the Aleeke, the local chief. Accordingly, the party, conducted by the guide, conveyed them to a house in which eight or ten middle aged persons were seated in a circle. The Captain and his present being introduced, he was courteously desired to sit down; and then he began to expatiate on the merits of his pigs, shewing how many young ones the female might produce, and how soon they might be multiplied to hundreds. This he did. to enhance their value in the eyes of the natives, that they might take more care of them. They presented him with six yams; upon which he took leave of them, and went on board.
