Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0048
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off Cape Kidnappers
baize sent down but no sooner had the man got hold of it than he began with amazing coolness to pack up both it & his furr jacket in a basket intirely deaf to the Captns Demands & the canoe immediately dropd astern a small consultation now ensued among the boats after which they all returnd alonside & the fishermen again offerd fish to sale which was accepted & trade renewd the little Tayeto Tupias boy was employd with several more to stand over the side & reach up what was bought while he was doing this one of the men in a canoe seizd him & draggd him down & then held him in the fore part of the Canoe & three more in her paddled off as did all the other boats the marines were in arms upon deck they were orderd to fire into the Canoe which they did at lengh one man dropd the others on seeing this loosd the boy who immediately leapd into the water & swam towards the ship the large boat on this returnd towards him but on some musquets & a great gun being fird at them left off the chase our boat was lowerd down & took up the boy frighned enough but not at all hurt what number were killd in the boats we cannot tell probably not many as the people who fird at the boat in which the boy was