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Janry. 1771.   at Princes Island

town, where the kings & all the nobilities houses were, which the inhabitants very freely shewd to us, the most of them were shut up, the people in general at this time of the year living in their rice feilds, to defend the Crop from Monkies Birds &c.,  when our curiosity was satisfied, we hird a large sailing boat for which we gave 2 Rupees 4s/, which carried us home time enough to dine upon the deer we had bought the day before, which provd very good & savoury meat.

In the Evening when we went ashore we were acquainted that an axe had been stole from one of our people, this as the first theft we thought it not proper to pass over, so immediate application was made to the king, who after some time promisd that it should be returnd in the morn

12. The hatchet was brought down according to promise, the theif they said afraid of conviction had in the night conveyd it into the house of the man who brought it, trade as usual, 2 or 300 weight of Turtle in a day with fowls &c., myself was

 

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