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Georges Land

April 1769

under groves of Cocoa nut & bread fruit trees loaded with a profusion of fruit & giving the most gratefull shade I have ever experienced under these were the habitations of the people most of them without walls in short the scene we saw was the truest picture of an arcadia of which we were going to be kings that the imagination can form.

Our pleasure in seeing this was however not a little allayd by finding in all our walk only 2 hogs & not one fowl the dolphins people who were with us told us that the people who we saw were only of the common sort & that the bettermost had certainly removd as a proof of this they took us to the place where the Queens palace formerly stood of which there was no traces left we howevr resolved not to be discouraged at this but to proceed tomorrow morning in search of the place to which these superior people had retreated in hopes to make the same peace with them as we have done with our freinds the blackguards.

14. This morn several Canoas came on board among which were two in which were people who by their dress & appearance seemd to be of a rank superior

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