The savages, when they saw that we were safe on board the ship, finally ceased from the pursuit.  Captain Frankland kept the ship steadily on her course, ordering five or six guns to be fired without shot over their heads, as a sign of the white man's displeasure.  After the first gun, the savages turned round their canoes, and, in terror and dismay, made the best of their way to the shore.  The _Triton_ was then steered for the coast of Japan.