Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0628
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Some account of Princes Island
the divisions &c. are quite the same
Their dispositions as far as we saw them were very good, at least they dealt very fairly with us upon all occasions Indian like however, always asking double what they would take for whatever they had to dispose of this however producd no inconvenenices to us who were us'd to this kind of trafick
In making out Bargains they were very handy & supplyd the want of small money reasonably well by laying together a quantity of any thing for which & when the price was settled dividing it among each other according to the proportion each had brought to the general stock they would sometimes change our money giving 240 doits for a Spanish dollar that is 5s/ sterling & 92 that is 2s/ sterling for a Bengall Rupee the money they chose however was doits in all small bargains dubbelcheys they had but wer very nice in taking them
Their Language is different both from the Malay & Javan they all however speak Malay