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319. Septr 1770. New Guinea
manner as ours do in Europe.
The house or shed that we saw was very mean & poor it consisted of 4 stakes drove into the ground 2 being longer than the other two over these were layd cocoa nut leaves loose & not half enough to cover it by the cutting of these stakes as well as of the arrows or darts which they threw at us we concluded that they had no Iron among them
As soon as ever the boat was hoisted in we made sail & steerd away from this Land to the No small satisfaction of I beleive thre fourths of our company the sick became well & the melancholy lookd gay the greatest part of them had were now pretty far gone with the longing for home which the Physicians have gone so far as to esteem a disease under the name of Nostalgia indeed I can find hardly any body in the ship clear of its effects but the Captn Dr Solander & myself indeed we three have pretty constant employment for our minds which I beleive to be the best if not the only remedy for it
4. Brisk trade & fine weather the alterd Countenances of our common people were still
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