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

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