Bligh Notebook
P. 73 - 1 Jun 1789 Remarks 2
of what we have had for I could not pre-
vent them. for my own part I am thank
God very well & much recruited in
strength. —
✓ no sign of any Quadruped
✓ Picked up a full grown cocoanutt
✓ shell & saw part of a wigwam–and two
✓ Backs of Turtle. —
✓ Picked up 3 Birds Eggs 2 were had young ones
& other good. —
All the Rocks are a light kind of stone
& in some places very sharp & bad walk-
ing on them.
✓ Dined on ½ our days allowance of Bread
oysters & Clams we brought from the other Sunday Isld.
& thickened with the Dollacus. — Some
would not eat the Pease, but others
& myself did. I think they are good – Some
dryed ones were found & eat by those who
were Ill, they were hard & flinty.—
✓ Mr. Nelson found a burning in his Bowels, loss of
sight & great drought but no feaver, Incapacity
to walk. —
Party got only a few Clams at East Key
Birds innumerable of the Niddy Kind —
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