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Opoorage

from some enemy not far off   they do not acknowledge any superior king which all we have before seen have done   so possibly these are a set of ourlaws from Teratu's Kingdom   their having no cultivation or houses makes it clear at least that it is either so or this is not their real habitation  they say however that they have houses & a fort somewhere at a distance but do not say that even there is any cultivation

9. At day break this morn a vast number of boats were on board almost loaded with macarel of 2 sorts   one exactly the same as is caught in England  we concluded that they had caught a large shoal & sold us the overplus what they could not consume  as they set very little value upon them   it was however a fortunate circumstance for us as by 8 O'clock the ship had more fish on board than all hands could eat in 2 or 3 days  & before night so many that every mess who could raise salt cornd as many as will last them this month or more 
after an early breakfast the astronomer

 

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