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Novr. 1769.   Bay of Plenty

at all frightned by the musquet but content with having shewd their courage by twice insulting us   we now begin to know these people & are much less afraid of any daring attempt from them than we were   at 12 the countrey appeard low with small cliffs near the shore but seemingly very fertile inland  we saw plainly with our glasses villages larger than any we had before seen situated on the topps of cliffs in places almost inaccessible  besides which they were guarded by a deep fosse & a high paling within it  so that probably these people are much given to war  in the evening the countrey low as before  many towns were in sight larger than those at noon   always situated like them on the topps of cliffs &fenc'd in the same manner  under them upon the beach were many very large canoes some hundreds I may safely say  some of which either had or appeard to have awnings but not one of them were put off   from all these circumstances we judgd the countrey to be much better peopled hereabouts & inhabited by richer people than we had before seen  may be it was the residence of some of their princes   as far as we have yet gone along the coast from Cape Turnagain to this place the people have acknowledgd

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