Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0260
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Botany Bay.
means they came on board at night in very good condition during the time this was doing 11 Canoes in each of which was one Indian came towards us we soon saw that the people in them were employd in striking fish they came within about 1/2 a mile of us intent on their own employments & not at all regarding us
opposite the place where they were several of our people were shooting one Indian may be prompted by curiosity landed hauld up his canoe & went towards them he stayd about a quarter of an hour & then launchd his boat & went off probably that time had been spent in watching behind trees to see what our people did I could not find however that he was seen by any body - when the damp of the Even made it necessary to send my Plants & books on board I made a small excursion in order to shoot any thing I could meet with & found a large quantity of Quails much resembling our English ones of which I might have killd as large many almost as I pleasd had I given my time up to it but my business was to kill variety & not too many of