Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0028
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Taoneroa
a good deal hurt we may hope however that neither of them were killd as one of the musquets only was loaded with ball which I think I saw strike the water without taking effect & Tupias gun which was the last that was fird I clearly saw strike two men low down upon their legs who probably would be so lame as to walk with difficulty when they landed
The Indians retird gently carrying with them their wounded & we reembarkd in our boats intending to row round the bay see if there might be any shelter for the ship on the other side & attempt to land there where the countrey appeard to be much more fruitfull than where we now were the bottom of the bay provd to be a low sandy beach on which the sea broke most prodigiously so that we could not come near it within was flat a long way inland over this water might be seen from the mast head probably a lagoon but in the boat we could see no entrance into it. we had almost arrivd at the farthest part of the bay when a fresh breze came in from the seaward & we saw a Canoe sailing in standing right towards soon after another padling the