Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0515
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Octr. 1770. Batavia
man totaly unknown to me ran out of his house & eagerly acosting me askd if the Indian whoom he saw with me had not been at Batavia before on my declaring that he had not & asking the reason of so odd a question he told me that a year & a half before Mr De Bougainville had been at Batavia with two French ships & that with him was an Indian so like this that he had imagind it to be the identical same person had not I informd him to the contrary on this I enquir'd & found that Mr De Bougainville who was sent out by the French to the Malouine or Fauklands Islands (in order (as they said here) to sell them to the Spanyards) Had gone from thence to the river plate & afterwards having passd into the South Seas maybee to other Spanish ports where he & all his people had got an immense deal of Money