Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0140
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be done Dr Solander and myself fishd a little in the Evening & had good sport.
Febry 1. Raind this morn very hard as hard I think as it possibly could our poor little wild musicians were totaly disturbd by it in the Even it came on to blow very hard so much so that the ship drove & for the first time in the Voyage we had 3 anchors down
2. Still rainy so little could be done today indeed little remaind to be done
3. Fine weather the ship began to prepare for sailing so the Dr & myself employd ourselves in getting together our last specimens of seeds shells &c. I stayd at the watering place he went with the Captn to the farther Heppah who wanted to buy Dry fish for sea stock & did buy so much that at last the Old men fairly told him that he must go away or he would leave them without provisions which they enforcd by some threats matters were however so well conducted that they parted peacably
One of our gentlemen came home to day abusing the natives most heartily whoom he said he had found to be given to the detestable Vice of Sodomy he he said, had been with