7 May 1769

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

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7 May 1769 7. After dinner Dootahah came in a double canoe, after him came another bringing 4 hogs and one of these he orderd out of the boat with some bread fruit. I undertook to coax him out of the rest but had not the success I could have wishd, he would part with only one more and for that both the Captn and myself were obligd to go aboard with him and give him a broad ax. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 246, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17690507.html