Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0163
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Rio deJaneiro
tier & are consequently very open to the atack of a ship which may come within 2 cable lengh's or less of them besides they have no supply of water there but what they have from a cistern in which they catch rain or in times of Drouth are supplyd from the adjacent countrey this they have been obligd to build above ground Least the water should taint by the heat of the climate which a free access of air prevents a shot consequently which fortunately should break that cistern would reduce the defenders to the utmost nescessity
I was told by a person who certainly knew & I beleive meant to inform me right that a little to the southward just without the South head of the harbour was a bay in which boats might land with all facility without an possibility of being hinderd obstruction as there is no kind of work there & from this bay it is not above three