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May 1770    Bustard Bay

appeard very low but coverd with fine wood  on it were many very large Smoaks several of which were seen before we could see the land itself  at night water still shoal  land low & well wooded  fertile to appearance as any thing we have seen upon this coast  at 8 came to an anchor till morn

22. In the course of the night the tide rose very considerably  in the morn we got under sail again  the land as last night fertile & well wooded; at noon the land appeard much less fertile  near the beach it was sandy & we plainly saw with our glasses that it was coverd with Palm nut trees Pandanus tectorius which we had not seen since we left the Islands within the tropicks; along shore we saw 2 men walking along who took no kind of notice of us; at night we were working into a bay in which seemd to be good anchorage  where we came to an anchor resolvd to go ashore tomorrow & examine a little the produce of the countrey

23. Wind blew fresh off the land so cold that our cloaks were very necessary in going ashore; as the ship lay a good way from the land, we were some time before we got there. when landed however the sun soon recoverd its influence, & made it sufficiently hot, in the afternoon almost intolerably so. we landed near the mouth of a large lagoon which ran

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