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"Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira."
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"What is easy is seldom excellent."
"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
"Quality is better than quantity."
"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."
"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."
"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."
"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."
"People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything."
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"All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds."
"This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them."
"The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge."
"The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage."
"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."
"On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses."
"The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force."
"Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome."
"On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor."
"There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements."
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