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little sandy beach which we got in safe without much damage and
hawled [sic] our boat up out of out of the way of the surf and got all our
things out of the boat then we went to make a fire which with great
difficulty we did & being almost starving we put on a little rice to
cook when we landed on this Island we had but one Gallon of fresh
water for there was not a drop to be had on this Island the Island
was about 1 mile in Circumference after the tide fell we went to look
for some shell fish but found a great quantity of very fine large
Turtles which was were left upon the reef, we turned 5 of them and
hawled them upon the beach this reef runs about a mile and a
half out in the Sea & is entirely dry when low water we killed
one of the Turtles and had a noble meal that night it rained
very hard when we spread our mainsail & filled our two
Breakers full of water. We staid on the island 6 days during
that time we killed 12 Turtles and some of them we took
and dried over the Fire to take to Sea with us _ It seemed
to us that there had never been any natives on this Island
there was a kind of fruit which grew like a bell pepper and
tasted very well there was a great quantity of fowls which
stayed at night in holes in the ground we could not think
of taking any live Turtles with us because our boat would not
admit of it we paid the Seams of our boat all over with Soap
before we put to Sea at the end of the 6 days we launched our
boat & put to Sea at 8 oClock in the morning and Steered to
the northward; this Island was in Latitude 26do. 27m we made
the main land in the Evening we passed a great number
of small Island and put into a great many of them expecting
to find some Turtles but never found any in any
of the Islands we put into afterwards we found a great
quantity of shellfish but none of them very fit to eat but being
very

Identifier: | JB/169/203/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	203	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4 / f5 / f6
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	57023
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