Mahuare
[At some point after his arrival at Cape Town, Cook added the following:]
Upon our arrival at Batavia we were informd the two French Ships a Frigate ^ and a store Ship commanded by the Sieur de Bougainville touch'd at that place ^ two years ago in their way home from the South Seas. two years ago. We were here told many circumstances of these two Ships all tending to prove behond ^ a doubt that they were the same 2 ships that as were at Georges Island ^ some months before us which we then Judged were ^ to be Spaniards, being lead into