Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0229
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ponderous materials as much fault as I find with these gentlemen will however probably recoil on myself when I on so slight grounds as those I have mentiond again declare it to be my opinion that a Southern Continent exists an opinion in favour of which I am strongly preposesd but foolish and weak as all prepossesions must be thought I would not but declare myself so least I might be supposd to have stronger reasons which I conceald
To search for this Continent then the best & readyest way by which at once the existence or nonexistence of it might be Provd appears to me to be this Let the ship or ships destind for this service Leave England in the Spring & proceed directly to the Cape of Good hope where they might refresh their people & supply in some articles may be their expence of provision [three lines deleted and indecipherable] from thence, to proceed round Van Diemens Land to the Coast of New Zealand where they might again refresh in any of the