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the facility or otherwise of floating them down to a con- 
venient place for shipment, fyc. 
Minerals, any of the precious metals, or stones ; how 
used, or valued by the natives. 
The description and characteristic difference of the 
several tribes or people on the coast. 
The occupation and means of subsistence, whether 
chiefly, or to what extent by fishing, hunting, feeding 
sheep or other animals, by agriculture or by commerce. 
The principal objects of their several pursuits, as men- 
tioned in the preceding paragraphs. 
A circumstantial account of such articles growing on 
the sea-coast, if any, as might be advantageously im- 
ported into Great Britain, and those that would be 
required by the natives in exchange for them. 
The state of the arts, or manufactures, and their com- 
parative perfection in different tribes. 
A vocabulary of the language spoken by every tribe 
with which you may meet, using in the compilation of 
each the same English words. 
On the day that my appointment was 
dated, I received an order for a passage in 
the ship Dick, a transport, hired to convey 
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