Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0040
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Off Cape Table
that an account of our weapons & management of them can be conveyd as far as we in all probabley must go & this I am well convincd of that till these (warlike people) have severly felt our superiority in the art of war they will never behave to us in a freindly manner
about an hour before sunset the canoes left us & with us three of their people who were very desirous to have gone with them but were not permitted to return to the Canoes what their reason for so doing is we can only guess possibly they may think that their being on board will induce us to remain here till tomorrow when they will return & renew the traffick by which they find themselves so great gainers the people were tolerably chearfull, entertaind us with dancing & singing after their custom eat their suppers & went to bed very quietly
12. During last night the ship saild some leagues which as soon as the 3 men saw they began to lament & weep very much Tupia with dificulty could comfort them about 7, 2 Canoes apeard they left no sign unmade which might induce them to come to the ship. one at last venturd