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48. off Gable End Foreland
they expressd great curiosity & surprize attending to any thing that was shewn to them & thankfully accepted the presents which were made them but would not eat with us their servants however were not at all scrupolous on that head for they eat most enormously almost every thing they could get
19. Pleasant breeze all last night so that this in the morn we are were off Table cape our guests expressd some surprize at finding themselves so far from home but had their boat hoisted out & went ashore near abreast of the ship we saild very briskly soon passd poverty bay the countrey beyond it seemd to be fertile with few or no cliffs about noon we passd by a remarkable white Cliff of a triangular shape not unlike the Gable End of a farm house this same cliff we had seen from the sea when first we made the land & from its triangular shape had compard it to a latteen sail it was now calld Gable End Foreland Just here 3 Canoes came off one man from them venturd on board but soon went back & the boats dropd astern in the evening many shoals of very small brown shrimps passd by the ship that coulurd the water
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