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June 1770   Palm Islands.

7. Sailing between the main & Islands the main rose steep from the Water rocky & barren  just about sun rise a shoal of fish about the size of & much like flounders but perfectly white went by the ship. at noon the Islands had mended their appearance & people were seen upon them  the Main as barren as Ever with several fires upon it one vastly large  after dinner an appearance very much like Cocoa nut trees tempted us to hoist out a boat & go ashore  where we found our supposd  Cocoa nut trees to be no more than bad Cabbage trees  the Countrey about them was very stoney & barren & it was almost dark when we got ashore  we made a shift however to gather 14 or 15 new plants after which we repaird to our boats  but scarce were they put off from the shore when an Indian came very near it & shouted to us very loud  it was so dark that we could not see him, we however turnd towards the shore by way of seeing what he wanted with us  but he I suppose ran away or hid himself immediately for we could not get a sight of him

8. Still sailing between the Main & Islands  the former rocky & high lookd rather less barren than usual & by the number of fires seemd

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