Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0140
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Rio de Janeiro
who was ashore every day to buy our provisions I think cannot err much from truth
The town of Rio de Janiero the capital of the Portugese dominions in America situate on the banks of the River of that name both are call'd I apprehend from the Roman saint Januarius accordg to the Spanish & Portugese custom of naming their discoveries from the Saint on whose feast they are made
it is regular & well built after the fashion of Portugal every house having before its windows a Lattice of wood behind which is a little balcony for size it is much larger & I could have thought probably little inferior to any of our Countrey towns in England Bristol or Liverpool not excepted the streets are all straight intersecting each other at Right angles & have this peculiar Convenience that much the greater number