Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0109
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[Page 109]
To Brasil
Novr. 1768
their cask of water was truely primitive & pleasd me much the cask was large as broad as the boat & exactly fitted a place in the Ballast made for it they consequently could not get at the bottom of it to put in a tap by which the water might be drawn out. To remedy this dificulty they made use of a cane about three feet long hollow & open at each end this the man who wanted to drink desired his neighbour to fill for him which he did by putting it into the cask & laying the palm of his hand over the uppermost hole hinderd the water from running out of the other to which the drinker applyd his mouth & the other taking off his hand lett the liquor run into the drinkers mouth till he was satisfied
Soon after we came on board a Sphynx was taken which provd to be quite a new one & a small bird also who was the Tanagra