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544. Cape of Good Hope
we found in this Harbour 3 are now saild & the fourth is ready for sea of them two were 64 Gun ships the other a large Snow & the fourth which still remains a frigate all these Came from the Isle de France for Provision of which they carry away from hence a prodigious quantity & consequently must have many mouths to feed upon that Island from whence it is probable they Meditate some stroke at our East Indian Settlements in the beginning of a future war which however our India people are not at all alarmd at trusting intirely to the vast standing armies which they constantly keep up the support of which that in the Kingdom of Bengall alone Costs 840000 eight hundred & forty thousand pounds a Year!
Mr De Bougainville pleasd with the Beaty of the Ladies of Otahite gave that Island the Name of Cypre in his return home he touchd at Isle de France where the Person who went out with him in the Character of Natural Historian was left & still remains. Otorroo
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