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Georges Land

I put it back & by signs told him that I wanted nothing but our own which his people had stole on this he gave me into charge of my faithfull companion his wife who had never budged an inch from my elbow with her I sat down on the mat & convers'd by signs for near ½ an hour after which time he came back bringing the snuff box & the case of the opera glass which with vast pleasure in his countenance he returnd to the owners but his face soon changed when he was shewn that the case was empty which ought to have been full he then took me by the hand & walkd along shore with great rapidity about a mile by the way he receivd a peice of cloth from a woman which he carried in his hand at last we came to a house in which we were receivd by a woman to her he gave the cloth he had & told us to give her some beads  The cloth & beads were left on the floor by us & she went out she stayd about ¼ of an hour & then returnd bringing the glass in her hand with a vast expression of joy on her countenance for few faces have I seen which have more expression in them than those of these people The beads were now returnd with a positive resolution of not accepting them & the Cloth was as resolutely forcd upon Dr Solander as a recompence for his loss he then made a new present of beads to the
 

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