Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0150
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Rio de Janeiro
the gentlemen returnd in kind notwithstanding which each of them threw away whole hatfulls of flowers in their walk tho it was not a long one
Assassinations are I fancy more frequent here than in lisbon as the churches still take upon them to give protection to the criminals one accident of the kind happned in the sight of S Evans our Cockswain a man who I can depend upon who told me he saw two people talking together to all appearance in a freindly manner when one on a sudden drew a knife & stabbd the other twice & ran away pursued by some negroes who saw the fact likewise but what the farther Event of this was I could not learn
Thus much for the town & its inhabitants I shall now speak of the countrey which I know rather more of than of the other as I was ashore one whole day in that time I saw much Cleard ground