Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0365
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[Page 365]
Huahine
July 1769
yesterday with a peice of cloth which least I should offend the people I left untouchd but to day the cloth & probably the contents of the chest were removd as there was nothing at all in it
Trade today does not go on with any spirit the people when any thing is offerd will not take it on their own judgement but take the opinion of 20 or 30 people about them which takes up much time we however got 11 piggs & hogs
19. This morn trade rather better got 3 very large hogs & some piggs by producing hatchets which had not been before given & we hop'd to have had no occasion for in an Island which had not before been seen by Europaeans in the afternoon go to Sea
The Island of Huahine differs scarce at all from that of Otahite either in its productions or in the customs of the people in all our searches here we have not found above 10 or 12 new plants a few insects indeed & a species of scorpions which we did not see at Otahite This Island seems however this year at least to be a month at least forwarder than the other as the ripeness of the Cocoa nuts now full of kernel & the young new breadfruit some of which is fitt to Eat fully evinces of the Cocoa nut kernels they make a food which they call Poe by scraping them fine & mixing them with yams also scrapd these are put into a wooden trough & hot stones laid among them by which means