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Endeavours River

damage near that place

5. Went to the other side of the harbour & walkd along a sandy beach open to the trade wind  here I found innumerable fruits  many of Plants I had not seen in this countrey  among them were some Cocoa nuts that had been open'd (as Tupia told us) by a kind of Crab  calld by the Dutch Beurs Krabbe (Cancer Latro) that feeds upon them  all these fruits were incrusted with sea productions & many of them Coverd with Barnacles  a sure sign that they have come far by sea & as the trade wind blows almost right on shore they must have come from some other countrey - probably that discoverd by Quiros & calld Terra del Esprito Santo as the Latitudes according to his own account agree pretty well

Tupia who parted from us & walkd away a shooting, on his return told us that he had seen 2 people who were digging in the ground for some kind of roots  on seeing him they ran away with great precipitation

[Margin note] Journey up the countrey.
6. Set out today with the second lieutenant resolvd to Go a good way up the river & see if the countrey inland differd from that near the shore. we went for about 3 leagues among Mangroves then
 

 

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