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286 Cape Grafton
to be better peopled in the morn we passd within 1/4 of a mile of a small Islet or rock on which we saw with our glasses about 30 men women & children standing all together & looking attentively at us the first people we have seen shew any signs of curiosity at the sight of the ship
9. Countrey much the same as it was, hills near the sea high, lookd at a distance not unlike Mores or heaths in England but when you came nearer them were coverd with small trees Some few flatts & valleys lookd tolerably fertile aAt noon a fire & some people were seen. after dinner came to an Anchor, & went ashore; but saw no people the countrey was hilly & very stony affording nothing but fresh water at least that we found except a few Plants that we had not before met with at night our people caught a few small fish with their hooks & lines
10. Just without us as we lay at an anchor was a small sandy Island laying upon a large Coral shoal much resembling the low Islands in the to the Eastward of us but the first of the kind we had met with in this part of
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