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Novr. 1769.  Oohoorage

other side of the bay who likewise mentiond Toravas name & sent a young man into the ship Who told us that he was the old mans grandson   we never suspected him to have had so much influence   in the evening it came on thick & misty so we came to an anchor not a little pleasd to find our selves at least in a peaceable countrey

20. Weather still thick & hazey  we had yesterday resolvd to Employ this day in examining the bay so at day break we set out in the boats  a fresh breeze of wind soon carried us to the bottom of the bay  where we found a very fine river broad as the Thames at Greenwich tho not quite so deep  there was however water enough for vessels of more than a midling size & a bottom of mud so soft that nothing could possibly take damage by running ashore   about a mile up this was an Indian town built upon a small bank of Dry sand but totaly surrounded by deep mud  so much so that I beleive they meant it a defence  the people came out in flocks upon the banks inviting us in  they had heard of us from our good freind Torava   we landed & while we stayd they were most perfectly civil  as indeed they have always been where we were known but never where

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