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Excerpt from An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators, Vol. 4 of 4: Including Those Lately Undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty; The Whole Faithfully Extracted From the Journals of the Voyagers
In confequence of this refolution, on the 3d of September, the Captain, accompanied by Mel'frs. Banks and Solander, and attended by the boat's crew and Mr. Banks's fervants, fet out in the pinnace; but when they came within two hundred yards of the lhote the water was fo fhallow, that they were obliged to leave the boat, in the care of two of the failors, and wade to land. They were no fooner clear of the wa ter, than they faw feveral prints of human feet on the fand, below high-water-mark, from whence it was evident, that the natives had been very lately there About one hundred yards from the water there was a thick wood, along the borders of which they walked till they ar rived oh the banks of a brook of water, on which was fituated a fine grove of cocoa-nut trees, which abounded with fruit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
