Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0114
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Sandy Bay
great lye for your ancestors would never have been such fools as to come back without them thus much as a specimen of Indian reasoning. after much conversation our freinds left us but promisd to return at night & bring with them fish which they did & sold it very reasonably
10. This morn we were near the land which was as barren as it is possible to conceive hills within hills & ridges even far inland were coverd with white sand on which no kind of vegetable was to be seen it was conjecturd by some that the land here may be very narrow & the Westerly wind blow the sand quite across it some Indian forts or Heppah's were seen & from them some canoes put off but did not overtake us
11. Wind as heard hearted as ever, we turnd all day without loosing any thing, much to the credit of our old Collier; who we never fail to praise if she turns as well as this.
12. Wind &c. as yesterday
13. Wind as foul as ever & rather overblows so that in this days turning we lost all we had