Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0282
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Thirsty Sound
& proceeded upon dry land & where the water was filld with small stones standing above its surface would leap from stone to stone rather than go into the water in this manner I observd several pass over puddles of water & proceed on the other side leaping as before. in the afternoon we went ashore on the opposite side of the bay the productions were much like those on the side we were on in the morn but if any thing the Soil was rather better in neither morning nor evening were saw there any traces of inhabitants ever having been where we were except that here & there trees had been burnt down
30. Went again ashore in the same place as yesterday in attempting to penetrate farther into the countrey it was necessary to pass a swamp coverd with mangrove trees this we attempted chearfully tho the mud under them was midleg deep yet before we had got half way over we heartily our undertaking so entangled were the archd branches of those trees that we were continualy stooping & often slipping off from their slimey