Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0107
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Decr. 1769. Motuaro
open to the air without the smallest application upon it yet it had as good an appearance & seemd to give him as little pain as if he had had the best dressings to it we gave him a musquet ball & with a little talking to he seemd very fully sensible of the escape he had had
In the Even we went ashore on another Island where were many more people than we had seen in the morn who livd in the same peacable stile & had very large plantations of sweet potatoes yamms &c. all about their village they receivd us much as our freinds in the morning had done & like them shewd much satisfaction at the little presents of necklaces &c. which were given to them
4. Our Old man came on board & brought with him his son brother who had been shot with small shot on the 29th it had slanted along his thigh which I suppose had not less than 100 shotts in it this wound was likewise without any application &seemd to give him little or no pain but was crusted over with a hard crust natures plaister equal maybe when she chuses to apply it to any that art has contrivd