Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0516
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Batavia
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