Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0524
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recoverd tho by extreemly slow degrees till his second attack. Myself either by the influence of the Bark of which I had all along taken quantities, or by the anziety I sufferd on Dr Solanders account Miss'd my fever, nor did it return for several days till he became better.
14. This day we had the agreable news of the repairs of the ship being compleatly finishd, & that she was returnd again to Coopers Island, where she provd to be no longer at all leaky, When examind she had provd much worse than any body expected, her main plank being in many places so cut by the rocks, that not more than one eighth of an inch in thickness remaind, & here the worm had got in & made terrible havock, her false keel intirely gone, & her main keel much wound'd, these damages were now however intirely