Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0259
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May 1770 Botany Bay
day of our landing they were black but not negroes hairy naked &c. just as we had seen them
2. the morn was rainy & we who had got already so many plants were well contented to find an excuse for staying on board to examine them a little at least in the afternoon however it cleard up & we returnd to our old occupation of collecting in which we had our usual good success Tupia who strayd from us in pursuit of Parrots of which he shot several told us on his return that he had seen nine Indians who ran from him as soon as they perceivd him
3. Our collection of Plants was now grown so immensly large that it was necessary that some extrordinary care should be taken of them least they should spoil in the books I therefore devoted this day to that business & carried all the drying paper near 200 Quires of which the larger half part was full ashore & spreading them upon a sail in the sun kept them in this manner exposd the whole day often turning them & sometimes turning the Quires in which were plants inside out by this