Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0271
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May 1770 Bustard Bay
appeard very low but coverd with fine wood on it were many very large Smoaks several of which were seen before we could see the land itself at night water still shoal land low & well wooded fertile to appearance as any thing we have seen upon this coast at 8 came to an anchor till morn
22. In the course of the night the tide rose very considerably in the morn we got under sail again the land as last night fertile & well wooded; at noon the land appeard much less fertile near the beach it was sandy & we plainly saw with our glasses that it was coverd with Palm nut trees Pandanus tectorius which we had not seen since we left the Islands within the tropicks; along shore we saw 2 men walking along who took no kind of notice of us; at night we were working into a bay in which seemd to be good anchorage where we came to an anchor resolvd to go ashore tomorrow & examine a little the produce of the countrey
23. Wind blew fresh off the land so cold that our cloaks were very necessary in going ashore; as the ship lay a good way from the land, we were some time before we got there. when landed however the sun soon recoverd its influence, & made it sufficiently hot, in the afternoon almost intolerably so. we landed near the mouth of a large lagoon which ran