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The same Penalty will be inflicted upon every person who is found to Embezzle, Trade, or Offer to Trade with any of the Ship's Stores of what Nature so ever. 5.
No sort of Iron or anything that is made of Iron, or any sort of Cloth or other useful or necessary Articles, are to be given in Exchange for anything but Provisions. J.C. As soon as the Ship was properly secured I went on shore, accompanied by Mr.Banks and the other Gentlemen,* (* Cook generally uses this term for the civilians on board.) with a Party of Men under Arms; we took along with us Owhaa--who took us to the place where the Dolphin watered, and made signs to us as well as we could understand that we might Occupy that ground, but it hapned not to be fit for our purpose.
No one of the Natives made the least opposition at our landing, but came to us with all imaginable Marks of Friendship and Submission.
We Afterwards made a Circuit through the Woods, and then came on board.
We did not find the inhabitants to be numerous, and we imagin'd that several of them had fled from their habitations upon our Arrival in the Bay. Friday, 14th.
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