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sent for no other purpose. And I bad the greatest 

 reason to believe that not a single article was smug- 

 gled by any of our people who were admitted on 

 shore, though many artful means were used to tempt 

 them, even by the very officers that were under His 

 Excellency's roof, which made the charge still more 

 injurious and provoking. I have indeed some reason 

 to suspect that one poor fellow bought a single bottle 

 of rum with some of the clothes upon his back ; and 

 in my answer I requested of His Excellency, that, if 

 such an attempt at illicit trade should be repeated, 

 he would without scruple order the offender to be 

 taken into custody. And thus ended our altercation, 

 both by conference and writing, with the Viceroy of 

 Rio de Janeiro. 



A friar in the town having requested the assistance 

 of our surgeon, Dr. Solander easily got admittance 

 in that character on the 25th, and received many 

 marks of civility from the people. On the 26th, 

 before day^break, Mr. Banks also found means to 

 elude the vigilance of the people in the guard-boat, 

 and got on shore ; he did not, however, go into the 

 town, for the principal objects of his curiosity were 

 to be found in the fields : to him also the people be- 

 haved with great civility, many of them invited him 

 to their houses, and he bought a porker and some 

 other things of them for the ship's company ; the 

 porker, which was by no means lean, cost him eleven 

 shillings, and he paid something less than two for a 

 Muscovy duck. 



On the 27th, when the boats returned from water- 

 ing, the people told us there was a report in town, 

 that search was making after some persons who had 

 been on shore from the ship without the Viceroy's 

 permission : these persons we conjectured to be Dr, 

 Solander and Mr. Banks, and therefore they deter- 

 mined to go on shore no more. 



On the first of December, having got our water 

 and other necessaries on board, I sent to the Viceroy 



