Bligh Notebook
P. 72 - 1 Jun 1789 Remarks 1
Rems.
✓ High water 3h¼ flows 5 feet–Flood from the
southd. as near as I could observe it. —
At 1 I went to the Top of the Isld. saw two
✓ Keys in the NWbN but no continent
farther than I saw before. —
✓ At 2 Dined sumptuously & at 3 I sailed
for the Keys in the NWbN expecting to
get some Turtle.— We are all
recruited by our shellfish dinners. –
Found a kind of Pea that grows on the ground on
vines species of the Dollacus. —
These oysters grow on the Rocks & are blackish
& resemble the Mangrove Oyster. They are
very difficult to open or get off the Rocks
reason could get no more
This Isld. is mostly surrounded by Rocks. In
✓ some places Sandy Bay - Fish in the Lagoon–
The one we are on is the westn. Key of three
that form the Lagoon. – a nother Rocky Key
lies to the SW & a small Sandy one near
it – Toa Tree the leaf of wch. is like a Fir
is here & many other Tropical Bushes
The Fine oysters we met with at last Isld are
none here. —
People who are sick attribute their
illness to eating of the Dollacus, but I believe
it is owing to their Berries & to voraciously
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