The next morning, I sent the second lieutenant, with all the boats, and sixty men, to the westward, to look at the country, and try what was to be got.  About noon he returned, having marched along the shore near six miles.  He found the country very pleasant and populous, and abounding as well with hogs and fowls, as fruit, and other vegetables of various kinds.  The inhabitants offered him no molestation, but did not seem willing to part with any of the provisions which our people were most desirous to purchase:  They gave them, however, a few cocoa-nuts and plantains, and at length sold them nine hogs and a few fowls.  The lieutenant was of opinion, that they might be brought to trade freely by degrees, but the distance from the ship was so great, that too many men would be necessary for a guard.  He saw a great number of very large canoes upon the beach, and some that were building.  He observed that all their tools were made of stone, shells, and bone, and very justly inferred, that they had no metal of any kind.  He found no quadrupeds among them, besides hogs and dogs, nor any earthen vessel, so that all their food is either baked or roasted.  Having no vessel in which water could be subjected to the action of fire, they had no more idea that it could be made hot, than that it could be made solid.  As the queen was one morning at breakfast with us on board the ship, one of her attendants, a man of some note, and one of those that we thought were priests, saw the surgeon fill the tea-pot by turning the cock of an urn that stood upon the table:  Having remarked this with great curiosity and attention, he presently turned the cock, and received the water upon his hand:  As soon as he felt himself scalded, he roared out, and began to dance about the cabin with the most extravagant and ridiculous expressions of pain and astonishment:  The other Indians not being able to conceive what was the matter with him, stood staring at him in amaze, and not without some mixture of terror.  The surgeon, however, who had innocently been the cause of the mischief, applied a remedy, though it was some time before the poor fellow was easy.

On Thursday the 16th, Mr Furneaux, my second lieutenant, was taken very ill, which distressed me greatly, as the first lieutenant was not yet recovered, and I was still in a very weak state myself:  I was this day also obliged once more to punish Proctor, the corporal of marines, for mutinous behaviour.  The queen had now been absent several days, but the natives made us understand, by signs, that the next day she would be with us again.

Accordingly the next morning she came down to the beach, and soon after a great number of people, whom we had never seen before, brought to market provisions of every kind; and the gunner sent off fourteen hogs, and fruit in great plenty.

In the afternoon of the next day, the queen came on, board, with a present of two large hogs, for she never condescended to barter, and in the evening she returned on shore.  I sent a present with her, by the master, and as soon as they landed, she took him by the hand, and having made a long speech to the people that flocked round them, she led him to her house, where she clothed him, as she had before done me, according to the fashion of the country.