Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0309
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Otahite
May 1769
part of the ceremony the other three were then laid which made a treble covering of the ground between her & me she then once more displayd her naked beauties & immediately marchd up to me a man following her & doubling up the cloth as he came forwards which she immediately made me understand was intended as a present for me I took her by the hand & led her to the tents acompanied by another woman her freind to both of them I made presents but could not prevail upon them to stay more than an hour - in the evening Oborea & her favourite attendant Othéothéa pay us a visit much to my satisfaction as the latter (my flame) has for some days been reported either ill or dead
13. Our Freinds with us this morn in very good time as they generaly are very shortly after sunrise plenty of cocoa nuts &c. at the market after it was over about 10 O'Clock I walkd into the woods with my gun as I generaly did to spend the heat of the day in the Indian houses where I could be cool from the shade of the trees which every where grow about them in my return I met Tubourai near his house I stopd with him he took my gun out of my hand cockd it & holding it up in the air drew the trigger fortunately for him it flashd in the pan where he had got so much knowledge of the use of a gun I could not conceive but was sufficiently angry that he should attempt to exersise it upon mine as I had upon all occasions taught him & the rest of the Indians that they could not offend me so much as even to touch it I scolded him severely & even threatned to shoot him he bore all patiently but the moment I had crossd the river he & his family bag & baggage movd of to their other house at