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Opoorage

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
 

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