Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0067
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Novr. 1769. off White Island
cheated with impunity & began to despise our threats the consequence of which was that as soon as they had sold all they had got one of the boats pulld forward & seeing some linnen which was hanging overboard a man in her untied it without ceremony & put it into his bundle he was calld to but instead of returning it let his boat drop astern & laughd at us a musquet was fird over him which did not at all spoil his mirth small shot was then fird at him which struck him upon the back - heated I suppose he was for he regarded it less than most men would do a stripe just shrinking his body without ceasing to bundle up the very linnen he had stole which he was at that moment employd about the boats dropd astern about 100 yards & several musquet balls were fird near them but they continued their song of Defiance till the ship had left them 3 or 400 yards a round shot was then fird which went over them & struck the water 3 or 4 times at a large distance beyond them this effectualy shewd them that they could not easily get out of our reach for they immediately began to paddle & proceeded quite ashore without stopping to look behind them