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19 January 1770
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James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia
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The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth
1770
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Friday 19th Winds and weather as yesterday and the employment of the people the same. In the PM some of our people found in the skirts of the Wood three hip bones of Men, they lay near to a hole or hoven, that is aplace where the natives dress their Victuals, this circumstance trifleing as it is, is still a further proff that this people eat human flesh —
In the AM set up the Forge to repair the braces of the Tiller and such other Iron work as is was wanting. The natives came along side and sold us a quantity of large Mackerel for nails peices of Cloth and paper, and in this traffeck they never once attemptd to defraud us of any one thing, but dealt as fair as people could do —
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