Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0286
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[Page 286]
Georges land
but his Loss to me is irretrevable my airy dreams of entertaining my freinds in England with the scenes that I am to see here are vanishd no account of the figures & dresses of men can be satisfactory unless illustrated with figures had providence spard him a month longer what an advantage would it have been to my undertaking but I must submit
Our two freinds the cheifs of the west came this morn to see us one I shall for the future call Lycurgus from the justice he executed on his offending subjects on the 14th the other from the large size of his body I shall call Hercules Each of these brought a hog & bread fruit ready dressd as a present for which they were presented in return with a hatchet & a nail each Hercules's present is the largest he seems indeed to be the richest man
in the afternoon we all went ashore to measure out the ground for the tents, which was done & Cap Cooke & Mr Green slept ashore in a tent erected for that purpose after having observd an eclipse of one of the satellites of Jupiter
18. This morn at day break all hands were ashore & employd in getting up the tents & making a defence round them The ground we have pitchd upon is very sandy which makes it nescessary to support