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South Sea

April 1769

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they were up with us I forbear to say any thing about either people or canoes as I shall have so many better opportunities of observing them we however bought their cargoes consisting of fruits & cocoa nuts which were very acceptable to us after our long passage

13. This morn early came to an anchor in Port Royal bay King George the thirds Island before the anchor was down we were surrounded by a large number of Canoes who traded very quietly & civily, for beads cheifly, in exchange for which they gave Cocoa nuts Bread fruit both roasted & raw some small fish & apples they had one pig with them which they refus'd to sell for nails upon any account but repeatedly offerd it for a hatchet of these we had very few on board so thought it better to let the pig go away than to give it in exchange one of them in exchange knowing from the authority of those who had been here before that if we once did it they would never lower their price.

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