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16 May 1769
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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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16. The morning wet and disagreable. We hauld the Seine in several parts of the bay without the least success; the Indians are so fond of fish and so expert in catching it, using almost every method we do in Europe, that our want of success is not at all to be wonderd at. Tonight Tubourai, Tamio, Oborea, Obadee and Otheothea slept in my tent. At midnight the water casks were again atempted and two shot fird at the theif which alarmd my bedfellows not a little, they were however soon quieted by my going out and bringing back word of the reason of the firing.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 252, 2004
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