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54. 
Tegadu Bay

cannot omit as I beleive it is almost without an example  unexamped among Indians  Every house or small knot of 3 or 4 has a regular nescessary house where every one repairs & consequently the neighbourhood is kept clean which was by no means the case at Otahite   They have also a regular dunghil upon which all their offalls of food &c. are heapd up & which probably they use for manure

In the Evening all the boats being employd in carrying on board water we were likely to be left ashore till after dark   the loss of so much time in sorting & putting in order our specimens was what we did not like so we applied to our freinds the Indians for a passage in one of their Canoes  they readily launchd one for us  but we in number 8 not being usd to so ticklish a convenience overset her in the surf & were very well sousd   4 then were obligd to remain & Dr Solander  Tupia  Tayeto & myself embarkd again & came without accident to the ship well pleasd with the behaviour of our Indian freinds who would the second time undertake to carry off such Clumsy fellows

22. The surf being so great on the shore that water was got with great difficulty made the Captn resolve to leave the bay this morn  which he did
 

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