Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0031
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27.
Madeira
Septr. 1768
meat Brown, & coarse graind as ours, tho much smaller.
The town of Fonchiale is situated at the Bottom of the Bay, very ill Built, tho larger than the size of the Island seems to deserve. The houses of the bettermost people are in general large, but those of the poorer sort very small, & the streets very narrow & uncommonly ill pavd. The Churches here have abundance of ornaments, cheifly bad pictures, & figures of their favourite saints in lac'd cloaths; but the Convent of the Franciscans indeed which we went to See had very little ornament; but the neatness with which those fathers kept everything was well worthy of commendation, especialy their infirmary; the contrivance of which deserves also to be taken particular notice of; it was a Long room, on one side of which were windows, & an altar for