Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0312
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Endeavours River
damage near that place
5. Went to the other side of the harbour & walkd along a sandy beach open to the trade wind here I found innumerable fruits many of Plants I had not seen in this countrey among them were some Cocoa nuts that had been open'd (as Tupia told us) by a kind of Crab calld by the Dutch Beurs Krabbe (Cancer Latro) that feeds upon them all these fruits were incrusted with sea productions & many of them Coverd with Barnacles a sure sign that they have come far by sea & as the trade wind blows almost right on shore they must have come from some other countrey - probably that discoverd by Quiros & calld Terra del Esprito Santo as the Latitudes according to his own account agree pretty well
Tupia who parted from us & walkd away a shooting, on his return told us that he had seen 2 people who were digging in the ground for some kind of roots on seeing him they ran away with great precipitation
[Margin note] Journey up the countrey.
6. Set out today with the second lieutenant resolvd to Go a good way up the river & see if the countrey inland differd from that near the shore. we went for about 3 leagues among Mangroves then