Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0331
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Otahite
June 1769
that they would not suffer it I went with the 2nd Lieutenant to the place they had desird them to desist from destroying the burying ground they had began upon but shewd them another the officer however though it best not to molest any thing of the kind & sent the people to the river where they gatherd stones very Easily without a possibility of offending anybody
19. The fish in the Canoes stink most immoderately so as in some winds to render our situation in the tents rather disagreable this evening Oborea Otheothea & Tuarua came to visit us for the first time since the affair of the Jacket they were very desirous of sleeping in the fort but my Marque was full of Indians & no one else chose to entertain them so they were obligd to repair to their Canoes to sleep there rather out of humour
20. This morn early Oborea & Co came to the tents bringing a large quantity of provisions as a present among the rest a very fat dog we had lately learnt that these animals were eat by the Indians & esteemed more delicate food than Pork now therefore was our oportunity of trying the experiment he was immediately given over to Tupia who finding that it was a food that we were not acustomd to undertook to stand butcher & cook both he killd him by stopping his breath holding his hands fast over his mouth & nose an operation which took up above a quarter of an hour he then proceeded to dress him much in the same manner as we would do a pig singing him over the fire which was lighted to roast him & scraping him clean with a shell. He then opend him with the same instrument