Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0655
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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope
his Salary furnishes him with consequently not entering into trade he interferes with no man & not wishing to be bribd does always to the best of his abilities strict justice on all occasions
The Climate tho not at all too hot for those who come from India would doubtless appear sufficiently warm could any one be transported immediately from England to this place upon the whole it seems much of the same temperature as the Island of Madera tho scarce quite so hot this I judge from the productions in general during the whole Summer the air is frequently fannd by SE winds which come off the hills above the town with vast violence & during the time of their blowing especialy at the beginning are very troublesome to such as are obligd to be abroad in them by raising the Sand with which the whole countrey abounds & filling their eyes with it nor are the houses