Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0054
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Tegadu Bay
& they went ashore in her promising to return the next morn & bring of fish and sweet potatoes &c. We returnd on board but in the course of the evening it became fair & we went ashore we were receivd with great freindship by the natives in general who seemd carefull of giving us umbrage by collecting in too great bodies
each family or the inhabitants of 2 or 3 houses which generaly stood together were collected in a body 15 or 20 men women & children these sat on the ground never walking towards us but inviting us to them by beckoning with one hand movd towards the breast we made them small presents walkd round the bay & found a place for watering where the people are to land tomorrow & fill some at least of our empty cask
21. This morn at day break the waterers went ashore & soon after Dr Solander & myself there was a good deal of Surf upon the beach but we landed without much difficulty the natives sat by our people but did not intermix with them they traded however for cloth cheifly giving whatever they had tho they seemd pleasd with observing our people as well as with the gain they got by trading