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Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, Vols. II - IIIVoyaging Accounts
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9 October 1769

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The Passage from Oteroah to New Zealand (continued)

As we had unhappily experienced that nothing was to be done with these people at this place, and finding the water in the river to be salt, I proceeded in the boats round the bead of the bay in search of fresh water, and with a design, if possible, to surprise some of the natives, and take them on board, where by kind treatment and presents I might obtain their friendship, and by their means establish an amicable correspondence with their countrymen.


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