Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0091
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Novr. 1769. Oohoorage
other side of the bay who likewise mentiond Toravas name & sent a young man into the ship Who told us that he was the old mans grandson we never suspected him to have had so much influence in the evening it came on thick & misty so we came to an anchor not a little pleasd to find our selves at least in a peaceable countrey
20. Weather still thick & hazey we had yesterday resolvd to Employ this day in examining the bay so at day break we set out in the boats a fresh breeze of wind soon carried us to the bottom of the bay where we found a very fine river broad as the Thames at Greenwich tho not quite so deep there was however water enough for vessels of more than a midling size & a bottom of mud so soft that nothing could possibly take damage by running ashore about a mile up this was an Indian town built upon a small bank of Dry sand but totaly surrounded by deep mud so much so that I beleive they meant it a defence the people came out in flocks upon the banks inviting us in they had heard of us from our good freind Torava we landed & while we stayd they were most perfectly civil as indeed they have always been where we were known but never where