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279 May 1770. Thirsty Sound
roots on which we steppd we resolvd however not to retreat & in about an hour accomplishd our walk of about [1/4?] of a mile beyond this we found a place where had been 4 small fires near them were fish bones, shells &c. that had there been roasted & grass layd together upon which 4 or 5 people had slept as I guessd about a fortnight before Several of our people were ashore on liberty one of these saw a small pool of standing water which he judgd to contain about a ton our second lieutenant saw also a little laying in the bottom of a gully near which were the tracks of a large animal of the Deer or Guanicoe kind he who has been in Port Desire on the Coast of South America seemd to incline to think them like the latter Some Bustards were also seen but none of them shot Great Plenty however of the Beautifull Loriquets seen in the last but one anchoring place were seen & killd The 2nd Lieutenant & one more man who were in very different places Declard that they heard the voices of Indians near them but neither saw the People. the countrey in
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