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252.
Botany Bay

their hands sticks that shone (sayd the Sergeant of marines) like a musquet: the officer on seeing them gatherd his people together  the hay cutters coming to the main body appeard like a flight so the Indians pursued them however but a very short way  for they never came nearer than just to shout to each other  maybe a furlong  at night they came again in the same manner & acted over again the same half pursuit. Myself in the Even landed on a small Island on the Northern side of the bay to search for shells  in going I saw six Indians on the main who shouted to us but ran away into the woods before the boat was within half a mile of them although she did not even go towards them

May
1. The Captn Dr Solander, myself & some of the people making in all 10 musquets  resolvd to make an excursion into the countrey  we accordingly did so & walkd till we compleatly tird ourselves  which was in the evening  seeing by the way only one Indian who ran from us as soon as he saw us  the Soil wherever we saw it consisted
 

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