Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0233
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229.
April 1770 to New South Wales
31. Our rout being settled in the manner above mentiond we this morn weighd & saild with a fair breeze of wind inclind to fall in with Van Diemens Land as near as possible to the place where Tasman left it
1. Fresh breeze & fair all day
2. Wind more to the westward but still fair - our malt having turnd out so indifferent that the Surgeon made little use of it a method was thought of some weeks ago to bring it into use which was, to make as strong a wort with it as possible & in this boil the wheat which is servd to the People for breakfast it made a mess far from unpleasant which the people soon grew very fond of: myself who have for many months constantly breakfasted upon the same wheat as the people either did or at least thought that I receivd great benefit from the use of this mess it totaly banishd in me that troublesome Costiveness which I beleive most people are subject to when at Sea Whether or no this is a more beneficial method of administering wort as a preventative than the Common must be left to the faculty especialy that Excellent surgeon Mr M'Bride whose ingenious treatise on the Sea scurvy can never be enough commended for my own part I should be inclind to beleive that the