Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0058
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Tegadu Bay
cannot omit as I beleive it is almost without an example unexamped among Indians Every house or small knot of 3 or 4 has a regular nescessary house where every one repairs & consequently the neighbourhood is kept clean which was by no means the case at Otahite They have also a regular dunghil upon which all their offalls of food &c. are heapd up & which probably they use for manure
In the Evening all the boats being employd in carrying on board water we were likely to be left ashore till after dark the loss of so much time in sorting & putting in order our specimens was what we did not like so we applied to our freinds the Indians for a passage in one of their Canoes they readily launchd one for us but we in number 8 not being usd to so ticklish a convenience overset her in the surf & were very well sousd 4 then were obligd to remain & Dr Solander Tupia Tayeto & myself embarkd again & came without accident to the ship well pleasd with the behaviour of our Indian freinds who would the second time undertake to carry off such Clumsy fellows
22. The surf being so great on the shore that water was got with great difficulty made the Captn resolve to leave the bay this morn which he did