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11 May 1769
Endeavour Voyage Maps
James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia
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Sydney Parkinson's Journal
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1769
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11. Cocoa nuts were brought down so plentifully this morn that by _ past 6 I had bought 350: this made it nescessary to drop the price of them least so many being brought at once we should exhaust the countrey and want hereafter; notwistanding I had before night bought more than a thousand at the rates of 6 for an amber coulourd bead, 10 for a white one, and 20 for a fortypenny nail.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 248, 2004
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