Letter received by Banks from William Bligh, 30 August 1791 (Series 50.13) - No. 0002

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deliver it to you myself altho I am sorry to find I have so early found an instance of my not being able to bear fatigue as I have formerly done. Nothing can do better th the ship & Brig - except in very strong winds, she keeps company remarkably well, & sometimes she out sails us, indeed every thing is as I can wish, but we shall be better acquainted by the time I come to the Cape, & my officers will become habituated to that attention which very few indeed are acquainted in necessary in these voyages.
The Heat here is extreme, such as never experienced before & the winds at night are as blowing from a furnace. One of my poor men who was with me in the Boat is lying dangerously ill with a fever like what I have, but the other who left Greenwich to come with me is very well. In other respects no ships company were ever in better health.

The Admiralty neglected giving me an order to advance the Gardeners money in