Banks' journal 3 May 1770

'During the time this was doing 11 Canoes, in each of which was one Indian, came towards us. We soon saw that the people in them were employd in striking fish;'

Cook's journal 6 May 1770

'Altho I have said that shell fish is their chief support yet they catch other sorts of fish, some of which we found roasting on the fire the first time we landed, some of these they strike with gigs and others they catch with hook and line _^^{we have seen them strike fish with gigs & hooks and lines were found in their hutts -} Sting rays I believe they do not eat because I never saw the least remains _^^of one near any of their hutts or fire places.

Cook's journal 30 April 1770

'After I had returnd from sounding the bay I went over to a Cove on the south ^north side of the bay where in 3 or 4 hauls with the Saine we caught about 300 pounds weight of fish which I caused to be equally divided among the Ships Company'

Cook's journal 29 April 1770

'I landed in two places one of which the people had but just left as there were small fires and fresh muscles broiling upon them - here likewise lay vast heaps of the largest oyster shells I ever saw.'

Cook's journal 3 May 1770

' - there were Six Canoes and Six small fires near the shore and Muscles roasting upon _^^thim and a few Oysters laying near, from this we conjecturd that there had been just Six people who had been out each in his Canoe picking up Muscles & oysters ^{the Shell fish} and come a shore to eat them where each had made his fire to dress them by - we taisted of their cheer...'

Cook's journal 6 May 1770

'On the Sand and Mud banks are Oysters, Muscles, Cockles &C^a which I beleive are the cheif support of the inhabitants who go into shoald water with their little canoes and pick them out of the sand and Mud with their hands and sometimes roast and eat them in the Canoe, having _^^often a fire for that purpose as I suppose for I know no other it can be for.'

Banks' journal 28 April 1770

(Morning of 29 April 1770)

'By noon we were within the mouth of the inlet which appeard to be very good.

Under the South head of it were four small canoes; in each of these was one man who held in his hand a long pole with which he struck fish, venturing with his little imbarkation almost into the surf.

These people seemd to be totaly engag'd in what they were about: the ship passd within a quarter of a mile of them and yet they scarce lifted their eyes from their employment; I was almost inclind to think that attentive to their business and deafned by the noise of the surf they neither saw nor heard her go past them.'

Cook's journal 29 April 1770

'...three Canoes lay upon the bea[c]h ... they were about 10 ^{12 or 14} feet long made of one peice of the bark of a tree drawn or tied up at each end and the middle kept open by means of peices of sticks ...'