Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0360
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[Page 360]
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Some account of New Holland
Journal of any thing more than the navigation of the ship & when upon coming home he was sollicited to publish an account of his vogage have referrd to his memory for many particulars relating to people &c.
[Margin note] People
these Indians when coverd with their filth which I beleive they never wash of are if not coal black very near it as negroes then he might well esteem them & add the wooly hair & want of two fore teeth in consequence of the similitude in complexion between these & the natives of Africa but from whatever cause it might arise certain it is that Dampier either was mistaken very much in his account or else that he saw a very different race of people from those we have seen
[Margin note] Coast
For the whole lengh of coast which we saild along there was a sameness to be observd in the face of the countrey very uncommon Barren it may justly be calld & in a very high degree that at least that we saw the Soil in general is sandy & very light on it grows grass tall enough but thin sett
[Margin note] Trees
& trees of a tolerable size never however near together in general 40: 50: or 60 feet assunder this & spots sometimes