nwarily trusting the Indian with his firelock and
pistol, the Indian escaped with them into the woods: His countrymen,
who remained behind, were apprehensive of suffering for this perfidy
of their comrade, and therefore begged leave to send one of their own
party into the country, who they engaged should both bring back the
arms, and persuade the whole detachment from Guam to submit to us.
The commodore granted their request; and one of them was dispatched on
this errand, who returned next day, and brought back the firelock
and pistol, but assured us, he had met with them in a path-way in the
wood, and protested that he had not been able to meet with any one of
his countrymen: This report had so little the air of truth, that we
suspected there was some treachery carrying on, and therefore, to
prevent any future communication amongst them, we immediately ordered
all the Indians who were in our power on board the ship, and did not
permit them to return any more on shore.

When our sick were well settled on the island, we employed all the
hands that could be spared from attending them; in arming the cables
with a good rounding, several fathom from the anchor, to secure them
from being rubbed by the coral rocks, which here abounded: And this
being completed, our next attention was our leak, and in order to
raise it out of water, we, on the first of September, began to get the
guns aft to bring the ship by the stern; and now the carpenters, being
able to come at it on the outside, ripped off the old sheathing that
was left, and caulked all the seams on both sides the cut-water, and
leaded them over, and then new-sheathed the bows to the surface of the
water: By this means we conceived the defect was sufficiently secured;
but upon our beginning to bring the guns into their places, we had the
mortification to perceive, that the water rushed into the ship in
the old place, with as much violence as ever: Hereupon we were
necessitated to begin again; and that our second attempt might be
more effectual, we cleared the fore store-room, and sent a hundred and
thirty barrels of powder on board the small Spanish bark we had seized
here, by which means we raised the ship about three feet out of the
water forwards, and the carpenters ripped off the sheathing lower
down, and new caulked all the seams, and afterwards laid on new
sheathing; and then, supposing the leak lobe effectually stopped, we
began to move the guns forwards; but the u