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March 1770.   admiralty bay

of Breakers but differd from them in the small waves breaking only without any swell or large ones  our boat sounded upon it but could get no ground  we supposd it to be the effect of a strong tide such as we felt in the streights a we passd them   at night came to an anchor in a Bay in some part of which it is probable that Tasman anchord

27. Went ashore this morn  the countrey hilly but not very high  little or no flats were however to be seen  in the place where we waterd were the remains of two or three indian houses which clearly had not been inhabited this year at least  but no signs that people had been here since that time  while Dr Solander & self botanizd Tupia & his boy caught almost a boat load of fish by angling in 2 or 3 fathom water

28. Raind & blew so hard all today that going ashore was scarce practicable  at least when we had so little hopes of success as our yesterdays search had given us in which we found not one new plant

29. Raind & blew as hard as yesterday  myself ill with sickness at stomack & most violent headach  a complaint which in some of our

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