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| 1) | Tho Tasmans Long: of Cape Maria Van Diemen comes so near the truth our seamen affirm and seem to make it appear that he errd no less than 4° 49' in running from the first land he made to Cape Maria van Diemen. If so his exactness must be attributed more to chance than skill. |
| 2) | The people who mentiond Taratu to us pointed as we thought always inland, but since the country has been laid down upon paper it appears that over the land in that distiction lays the Bay of Plenty. From hence it appears probable that this is the residence of Taratu and if so the Country inland will probably be found to be quite void of inhabitants. |
exactly the same which when first I began to learn the language producd many difficulties and mistakes.
From the similarity of customs, the still greater of Traditions and the almost identical sameness of Language between these people and those of the Islands in the South Sea there remains little doubt that they came originaly from the same source: but where that Source is future experience may teach us, at Present I can say no more than that I firmly beleive that it is to the Westward and by no means to the East.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW Transcription of Banks's Journal page (vol. 2) 220, February 2004
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