Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0334
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Endeavours River
all to our satisfaction who had no no one wish to remain longer in the place which we had pretty well exhausted even of its natural history the Dr & me were obligd to go very far for any thing new to day we went several miles to a high hill where after sweating & broiling among the woods till night we were obligd to return almost empty but the most vexatious accident imaginable befel us likewise: traveling in a deep vally the sides of which were steep almost as a wall but coverd with trees & plenty of Brush wood we found marking nuts (anacardium orientale) laying on the ground & desirous as we were to find the tree on which they had grown a thing that I beleive no European Botanist has seen we were not with all our pains able to find it; so after cutting down 4 or 5 trees & spending much time were obligd to give over our hopes
25. The Captn who was up the river today found the Canoe belonging to our freinds the Indians which it seems they had left tied to some mangroves within a mile of the ship themselves we could see by their fires were 5 or 6 miles off from us directly inland.