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O oohoorage or River Thames

attack us immediately went upon the poop &talkd to them a good deal  telling them what if they provokd us we should do & how easily we could in a moment destroy them all  they answerd him in their usual cant  "come ashore only & we will kill you all"   well said Tupia  but while we are at sea you have no manner of Business with us   the Sea is our property as much as yours   such reasoning from an Indian who had not had the smallest hint from any of us surprizd me much. & the more as these were sentiments I never had before heard him give a hint about in his own case.  all his preaching however had little effect for they soon renewd their stone attack  on which a musquet ball was fird through one of their boats on which they dropd astern & left us   at night the ship was in a place which some people conjecturd to be a channel betwixt an Island & the main   others a deep bay  where she came to an anchor

19. This morn two Canoes came from the land who said they knew Torava &​​​​​​​calld Tupia by his name   we took some of them onboard who behavd very well   afterwards canoes came from the
 

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