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at Princes Island

one Canoe however remaind & just as we went off sold us three turtle on a promise that we should not tell the King.

5. Ashore today trading, the Indians dropd their demands very slowly but were very civil, towards noon however they came down to the offerd price, so that before night we had bought up a large quantity of Turtle, In the Evening I went to pay my respects to his majesty the King, who I found at his house in the middle of a rice feild cooking his own supper, he receivd me however very politely

6. Many People were down at the trading place with fowls, fish, Monkeys, small Deer, &c. &c. but few or no Turtle, they said that we had bought them all the day before,

8. In the Morn the ship which had in the night been driven something nearer the shore, their was so near being ashore, that the foot of the rudder touchd several times, & indeed gave the first intimation of our danger, but by the alertness of the officers
 

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