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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

 

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