Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0075

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71.                  
Novr. 1769.        Opoorage

of yesterday he was observd to behave sensibly and well   laying in a small canoe always near the ship & at all times speaking civily to those on board   with some persuasion he venturd down into the cabbin & had presents  Cloth  Iron &c. given him   he told us that the Indians were now very much afraid of us   we promisd freindship if they would supply us with provision at their own price

After breakfast we went ashore on the banks of a river   the Indians who were on one side made all the signs of freindship imaginable   beckoning to us to land among them   it suited our convenience for hawling the sein & shooting Birds of which there were great numbers to land on the other side & it was not without much persuasion that they about noon venturd over to us

The Sein was hawld with no success but several Birds were shot   like sea pies but Black with red bills & feet   the trawl & dredge were also today employd & caught nothing but a few shells. the people who stayd by the boats saw two Indians fight on some quarrel of their own   they began with Lances which were soon taken from them by the old men but they were

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