Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0157
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Rio de Janeiro
Tho this Countrey should produce many & very valuable druggs we could not find any in the apothecarys shops but Pareira Brava & Balsam Copivi of both which we bought at excessive cheap prices & had very good of the sort I fancy the drug trade is cheifly carried on to the northward as is that of the Dying woods at least we could hear nothing of them here
For manufactures I know of none carried on here except that of Cotton hammocks which are usd for people to be carried about in as we do Sedan chairs but these are made cheifly by the Indians but the cheif riches of the countrey comes from the mines which are situated far up in the countrey indeed no one could tell me how far for even the situation of them is as carefully as possible conceald & Troops are continualy employd in guarding the Roads that lead to them so that it is