Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0324
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[Page 324]
Otahite
Dress in which he performd a ceremony both which I shall describe when I have an opportunity of seeing it in perfection which Tubourai promises me I shall soon have
This day we kept the Kings birthday which had been delayd on account of the absence of the two observing parties several of the Indians dind with us & drank his majesties health by the name of Kihiargo for we could not teach them to pronounce a word more like King george Tupia however to shew his Loyalty got most enormously drunk
6. In walking into the woods yesterday I saw in the hands of an Indian an Iron tool made in the shape of the Indian adzes very different I was sure from any thing that had been carried out or made either by the Dolphin or this ship this excited my curiosity much the more so when I was told that it did not come out of either of those ships but from two others which came here in concert together this was a discovery not to be neglected with much dificulty & labour I at last got the following account of them viz, that in their month of Pépére which answers to our February January 1768 2 Spanish ships came here commanded by a man whoom they calld To Otterah that they lay 8 days in a bay calld Hidea some leagues to the eastward of Matavie where the ship now lies that during their stay they sent tents ashore & some slept in them that they were cheifly connected with a cheif whose name was Orétte whose younger brother they carried away with them promising to return in nine months that they had on board their ships a woman & that on their departure they 1768
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