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King Georges Island (continued) this mistake by the Spanish Iron &Ca we saw among the Natives, which is easy accounted for, for we are told that while Bougainville in the Frigate was delivering up that part of Faulkland Islands poses'd by the French, to the Spaniards ^ which service we were told he was sent upon the Store Ship ^ was trading with the Spaniards in the River Plate where it is very probable she disposed of all her European goods and purchas'd other to trade with the Islands in the South Seas - What To confirm these last circumstances we were told that when they arrived at Batavia the Frigate had on board ^ a great quantity of Spanish Dollars — I think we were told also that they had been trading upon ^ the Spanish M[a]in in the South Seas. Some days after our Arrival at the Cape of Good Hope I was told by some French officers that were just come from the Island Mauritius that Orette the Native of Georges Island which Sieur Bougainville brought away with him was now at the Maritius and that the French were fitting out a ship at ^ that Island in order to carry him to his Native country and where they / the French / intend to make a settlement, a hundred Troops for that purpose were to got out in the same ship    this account is confirm'd by a French Gentleman &Ca Voyaging Accounts © Transcribed from National Library of Australia Manuscript 1 page 92, 2004 Published by South Seas To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook_remarks-037