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Streights of La Maire

every thing without any marks of extrordinary admiration unless the noise which our conjurer did not fail to repeat at every new thing he saw might be reckond as such.

After having been aboard about 2 hours they expressd a desire of going ashore & a boat was orderd to carry them I went with them & landed them among their countreymen but I can not say that I observd either the one party curious to ask questions or the other to relate what they had seen or what usage they had met with so after having stayd ashore about ½ an hour I returnd to the ship & the Indians immediately marchd off from the shore.

16. This morn very early Dr Solander & myself with our servants & two Seamen to assist in carrying baggage accompanied by Msrs Monkhouse & Green set out from the ship to try to penetrate into the countrey as far as we could & if possible gain the tops of the hills where alone we saw places not overgrown with trees we began to enter the woods at a little small sandy beach a little to the westward of the watering place & continued pressing through pathless thickets always going up hill till 3 o'Clock
 

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