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in new Spanish Dollars & and afterwards came here Across the South seas in which passage he discoverd divers lands unknown before & from one of them brought the Indian in question

This at once cleard up the account given us by the Indians of Otahite of the two ships which had been there ten Months before us V.I.  p.164 of this Journal  these were undoubtedly the ships of Mr De Bougainville  & the Indian Otourrou the Brother of Rette Cheif of Hidea  Even the story of the woman was known here   she it seems was a French woman who Followd a young man sent out in the character of Botanist in Mens Cloaths  as for the Article of the Colours  the Indians might easily be Mistaken or Mr De Bougainville if he had traded in the S. Sea under Spanish colours might chuse to go quite across with them
 

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