Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0077
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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