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Otahah

July 1769

& lapping their Garments round their breasts here particularly they were so scrupulously observant of it that a man was sent with us who calld out to every one we met telling him what we were & what he was to do

29. The wind last night has favourd us a little so that we are this morn close under the Island of Bola Bola whose high craggy peak seems on this side at least totaly inaccessible to men round it is a large quantity of low land which seems very barren Tupia tells us that between the shore & the mountain is a large salt lagoon a certain sign of barrenness in this climate he however tells us that there are upon the Island plenty of Hogs & fowls as well as the vegetables we have generaly met with

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Bola Bola

We see but few people on the shore Tupia tells us that they are gone to Ulhietea where we shall find them he says also that there is no breach in the reef on this side the Island but on the other there is one large enough for the ship to go in & a good harbour within it

30. This morn wind right on end See a new Island calld by Tupia Maurua he says it is fertile & yeilds plentifully all kinds of provision but that there is no breach in the reef large enough for the ship to go into.

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Maurua
 

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