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Cape Grafton

to be better peopled  in the morn we passd within 1/4 of a mile of a small Islet or rock on which we saw with our glasses about 30 men women & children standing all together & looking attentively at us  the first people we have seen shew any signs of curiosity at the sight of the ship

9. Countrey much the same as it was, hills near the sea high, lookd at a distance not unlike Mores or heaths in England but when you came nearer them were coverd with small trees  Some few flatts & valleys lookd tolerably fertile  aAt noon a fire & some people were seen. after dinner came to an Anchor, & went ashore; but saw no people  the countrey was hilly & very stony affording nothing but fresh water  at least that we found except a few Plants that we had not before met with   at night our people caught a few small fish with their hooks & lines

10. Just without us as we lay at an anchor was a small sandy Island laying upon a large Coral shoal  much resembling the low Islands in the to the Eastward of us but the first of the kind we had met with in this part of

 

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