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the Roots were so small that we did not think them at all an object for the ship so resolvd to content ourselves with the greens which are calld in the West Indies Indian Kale. I went with the Seamen to shew them the Place & they Gatherd a large quantity. saw one tree & only one notchd in the same manner as those at Stingrays Botany bay. We have ever since we have been here observd the nests of a kind of Ants much like the White ants in the East indies but to us perfectly harmless they were always pyramidical from a few inches to 6 feet in hight & very much resembled stones which which I have seen in English Druidical monuments today we met with a large number of them of all sizes rangd in a small open place which had a very pretty effect; Dr Solander compard them to the Rune Stones on the Plains of Upsal in Sweden myself to all the smaller Druidical monuments I had seen
29. One of our Midshipmen an American who was out a shooting today saw a Wolf perfectly he sayd like those he had seen in America he shot at it but did not kill it the Seine was hauld today for the first time & 150 lb of Fish caught in it
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