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36.
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
 

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