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84 Opoorage
green plants as possible of sea stock for finishing scetches &c, so an enormous number of all these articles came on board Dr Solander who was today in a cove different from that I was in saw the natives catch many lobsters in a most simple manner they walkd among the rocks at low water about middle deep in water & still felt about with their feet till they felt one on which they divd down & constantly brought him up I do not know whether I have before mentiond these lobsters but we have had them in tolerable plenty in almost every place we have been in & they are certainly the largest & best I have Ever Eat
15. Little wind & that foul Sail however Several canoes were on board & in one of them Torava who sayd that as soon as Ever we are gone he must go to his heppah or fort for the freinds of the man who was killd on the 9th threatend to revenge themselves upon him as being a freind to us
16. Wind foul as yesterday many Islands were seen but neither the main or them appeard at all Fertile or well inhabited only one town was seen all day & no people indeed we were rather too far off
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