Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0132
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Rio de Janeiro
among the trees where they might be taken Humming birds I also saw of one species but could not shoot them
The banks of the Sea & more remarkably all the Edges of small brooks were coverd with innumerable quantities of small Crabbs cancer vocans Linn one hand of which is very large among these were many both whose hands were remarkably small & of equal size these my black servant told me were females of the others & indeed all I examind which were many provd to be females tho whether realy of the same species with vocans I cannot determine on so short an acquaintance
I saw but little cutivation & that seemd to be taken but little pains with grass land was the cheif on which were many Lean cattle feeding & lean they might well be for almost all the species of grass which I observd here were creepers