Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0080
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[Page 80]
To Brazil
second duck had such proceeding been allowable
It is now time that I should say something of the climate & degree of heat since crossing the tropick as we have been for some time within the bounds which were supposd by the ancients to be uninhabitable on account of their heat
Almost immediately on crossing the tropick the air became sensibly much damper than usual tho not materialy hotter the thermometer then in general stood from 80 to 82, the nearer we approachd to the calms still the damper every thing grew this was perceivable even to the human body & very much so but more remarkably upon all kinds of furniture every thing made of Iron rusted so fast that the knives in peoples pockets became almost useless & the razors in cases not free.