Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0084
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Opoorage
but that gave us no kind of uneasiness as we well knew that not the boat only but the ship might be easily loaded in one tide almost as they are dry at half Ebb
12. Two canoes came Early this morn who appeard to be strangers who had heard of us by the caution & fear they shewd in approaching the ship two of them were however persuaded to come on board & the rest traded for what they had very fairly a small canoe also came from the other side of the bay & sold some large fish which had been taken the day before yesterday as yesterday it blew too for any Canoes to go to Sea after breakfast we all went ashore to see the an Indian Fort or Eppah in the neighbourhood uncertain however what kind of reception we should meet with as they might be Jealous of letting us into it where probably all their valuable effects were lodgd
we went ashore to a bay where were two we landed first near a small one the most beautifuly thing I romantick thing I ever saw it was built on a small rock detachd from the main & surroundd at high water the top of this was fencd round with rails after their manner but was not large enough to contain above 5 or 6 houses the whole appeard totaly inaccessible to any animal who was not