Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0076
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allowd to continue their battle which they did like Englishmen with their fists for sometime after which all of them retird behind a little hill so that our people did not see the event of the combat
6. Went ashore Indians as yesterday very tame their habitations certainly were at a distance as they had no houses but slept under the bushes the bay may be a place to which parties of them often resort for the sake of shell fish which are here very plentifull indeed where ever we went on hills or in valleys in woods or plains we continualy met with vast heaps of shells often many waggon loads together some appearing to be very old where ever these were it is more than probable that Parties of Indians had at some time or other taken up their residence as our Indians had made much such a pile about them the countrey in general was very barren but the topps of the hills were coverd with very large Fern the roots of which they had got together in large quantities as they said to carry away with them we did not see any kind of cultivation
in the evening I walkd up the river which at the mouth looks very fine & broad it in 2 miles or less shoald to nothing The countrey inland was still more barren than