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73.
Novr. 1769.   Opoorage

that near the sea side.

7. Rain & most disagreable weather all day kept us on board as well as the Indians from coming off to us

8. Fine weather  many Canoes came off   in them our freind Torava   while he was along side he saw 2 Canoes coming from the opposite side of the bay on which he immediately went ashore with all the canoes  telling us that he was afraid   he however soon returnd finding I suppose that the canoes had not in them the people he expected   in the two boats came an amazing number of fish of the macarel kind which the people sold for little or nothing  so that all hands had today fish enough

We went ashore & botanizd with our usual good success which could not be doubted in a countrey so totaly new   in the evening we went to our friends the Indians that we might see the method in which they slept   it was as they had told us on the bare ground without more shelter than a few shrubbs over their heads   the women & children were placd innermost or farthest from the sea   the men lay in a kind of half-circle round them & on the trees close by them were rangd their arms in order  so no doubt they are afraid of an attack

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