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58.
Tolaga Bay

27. Several Canoes came on board at day break & traded as usual   Dr Solander went with the Captn to examine the bottom of the bay  myself went ashore at the watering place to collect Plants  he saw many people who behavd very civily to the boats crew shewing them every thing they wanted to See  among other nicknacks he bought of a boys top shap'd like what boys play with in England which they made signs was to be whippd in the same manner  he found also several new plants  myself found some plants & went to the top of the hill above the watering place to see a fence of poles which we had observd from the ship  it was on a hill almost inaccessible by wood & steepness   we however climbd it & found several deserted houses near the rails which only consisted of Poles of 14 or 16 feet high set in two rows   each pole 10 feet from the next   the 2 rows were about 6 feet distant joind on the topps by a few sticks laid across sloping like the roof of a house  this rail work with a ditch which was paralel to it went about 100 yards down the hill in a kind of curve but for what purpose it had been intended I could not at all guess  the people of the watering place at our desire sung their war song in which both men & women joind  they distorted their faces most hideously roling their eyes & putting out their tongues but kept
 

 

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