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Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER 5
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Here were likewise several little Plantations planted with Potatoes and Yams.

The Soil and Natural produce of the Country was much the same as what we have hitherto met with.

The people we saw behaved to us with great marks of friendship.
In the evening we had Some very heavy showers of rain, and this brought us on board sooner than we intended.

A.M., the wind being still contrary, I sent some people ashore upon the Island to cut Grass for our Sheep, in the doing of which the inhabitants gave them no sort of disturbance, and in the same friendly manner did those behave that were alongside the Ship.

Punished Matthew Cox with 6 Lashes, and then dismiss'd him.
Saturday, 2nd.


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