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22 October 1769 Sunday 22nd P.M. light breezes and Clowdy About or a little after noon several of the natives came off to the Ship in their Canoes and began to traffic with us, our people giving them Georges Island Cloth for theirs, for they had little else to dispose of. this kind of exchange they seemd at first very fond of and prefer'd the Cloth we had got at the Islands to English Cloth, but it fell in its Value above 500 per cent before night. I had some of them on board and shewed them the Ship with which they were well pleased
The same friendly disposission was observe'd by those on Shore and upon the whole they behaved as well or better than one could expect, But as the geting the Water from the shore proved so very tedious on account of the surf, At Noon, the Bay of Tegadoo bore W1/2 S distant 8 Leagues and a very high doubled peek'd Mountain some distance in land bore NWBW. Latd Observ'd 38°.13' - Winds at North a fresh gale
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