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Endeavours River

all to our satisfaction who had no no one wish to remain longer in the place  which we had pretty well exhausted even of its natural history  the Dr & me were obligd to go very far for any thing new  to day we went several miles to a high hill where after sweating & broiling among the woods till night we were obligd to return almost empty  but the most vexatious accident imaginable befel us likewise: traveling in a deep vally  the sides of which were steep almost as a wall but coverd with trees & plenty of Brush wood  we found marking nuts (anacardium orientale) laying on the ground & desirous as we were to find the tree on which they had grown a thing that I beleive no European Botanist has seen  we were not with all our pains able to find it; so after cutting down 4 or 5 trees & spending much time were obligd to give over our hopes

25. The Captn who was up the river today found the Canoe belonging to our freinds the Indians  which it seems they had left tied to some mangroves within a mile of the ship  themselves we could see by their fires were 5 or 6 miles off from us directly inland.

 

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