State Library of NSW
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To Brasil
Novr. 1768
vegetable
8. At day break today we made the Land which Provd to be the Continent of S. America in Lat. 21.16 about ten we saw a fishing boat who told us that the countrey we saw belongd to the Captainship of Espirito Santo
Doctor Solander & myself went on board this boat in which were 11 men (9 of whom were blacks) who all fishd with lines we bought of them the cheif part of their cargo consisting of Dolphins two kinds of large Pelagick Macrel Scombers Sea Bream & the fish calld in the west indies Welshman for which they made us pay 19 shillings & Sixpence we had taken Spanish silver with us which we imagind was the currency of the Continent we were therefore not a little surprizd that they askd us for English shillings & preferrd two which we by accident had to the Pistereens tho they after some words took them also
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