Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0034
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Madeira
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ladies did us the honour to express great pleasure in seeing us there, they had heard that we were great Philosophers, & expected much from us, one of the first questions that they askd was, when it would thunder; they then desird to know if we could put them in a way of finding water in their convent, which it seems they were in want of; but notwishstanding our answers to these questions were not quite so much to the purpose as they expected, they did not at all cease their civilities, for while we stayd, which was about half an hour, I am sure there was not the fraction of a second in which their tongues did not go at an uncommonly nimble rate.
it remains now that I should say something of the Island in general, & then take my leave of Madeira till