Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0326
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Endeavours River
18. Indians were over with us today & seemd to have lost all fear of us & became quite familiar one of them at our desire threw his Lance which was about 8 feet in Lengh it flew with a degree of swiftness & steadyness that realy surprizd me never being above 4 feet from the ground & stuck deep in at the distance of 50 paces: after this they venturd on board the ship & soon became our very good freinds so the Captn & me left them to the care of those who staid on board & went to a high hill about Six miles from the ship here we overlookd a great deal of sea to Leward which afforded a melancholy prospect of the dificulties we were to encounter when we came out of our present harbour in which ever direction we turnd our eyes shoals innumerable were to be seen & no such thing as any passage to sea but through the winding channels between them dangerous to the last degree
[Margin note] Quarrel with the Indians
19. ten Indians visited us today & brought with them a larger quantity of Lances than they had ever done before these they laid up in a tree