Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0302
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[Page 302]
Georges Land
they however parted with very few fish in the course of the whole day a small quantity of bread fruit was got cheifly in a present & 6 Cocoa nuts only were bought a very disagreable change this from our former situation we have now no cocoa nuts & not ¼ enough of bread fruit for the people who have scarce ever before faild to turn away the latter from the market & purchase of the other from 3 to 400 a day
In the course of the day I went into the woods the Indians were civil but every where complaind of the ill usage Dootahah had met with they said that he had been beat & pulld by the hair I endeavour'd all I could to convince them that no violence had been offerd to them but without success I fear the Boatswain has been rougher in his usage of him than he chuses to acknowledge. Tupia stayd with us all day & at night slept in Oboreas Canoe not without a bedfellow tho the gentleman cannot be less than 45
4. No trade this morn but a little fish so we are for the first time in distress for nescessaries I went into the woods to Tubourai & perswauded him to give me 5 long baskets of bread fruit a very seasonable supply as they contain above 120 fruits a very few Indians appear today before the fort fewer than yesterday after dinner came a messenger from Dootahah requesting a shirt & a hatchet (he had been here yesterday with the same demand) I suppose in return for the hog he gave us on his release the Captn sent him back telling him that he would tomorrow visit him & bring the things himself in the Evening I went into the woods found the Indians as usual civil but complaining much of the treatment Dootahah had met with on the 2nd.