Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0164
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Admiralty Bay
people has been succeeded by a fever during the day many fish were taken in the ship 90. out of the Cabbin windows alone
30. Myself quite recoverd except a little soreness at my stomack occasiond I suppose by reaching yesterday
the weather being fair I resolvd to climb some hill in hopes of meeting some plants in the upper regions as none had been found in the lower I did with great dificulty walking for more than a mile in fern higher than my head success however answerd my wishes & I got 3 plants which we had not before seen
after coming down I examind the stones which lay on the beach they shewd evident signs of mineral tendency being full of Veins but I had not the fortune to discover any metal ore of metal (:at least that I knew to be so.) in them. as the place we lay in had no bare rocks in its neighbourhood this was the only method of I had of even Conjecturing