Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0441
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was that the entertainer never sets down to meat with his guests however if we suspected the victuals to be poisoned he would willingly do it we suspected nothing & therefore desire'd that all things might go as usual we all sat then sitting down we eat with a good appetites the Prime Minister & Myheer Lange partaking with us our wine passd briskly about the Radja alone refusing to drink with us saying that it was wrong for the master of the feast to be in liquer The pork was excellent the Rice as good the broth not bad the spoons only which were made of leaves were so small that few of us had patience to eat it every one however made a hearty dinner & as soon as we had done removd as the custom it seems was to let the Servants & Seamen take our Places these could not dispach all but when the women came to take away they forcd them to take away with them all the Pork that was left.
Before dinner Mynheer Lange had mentiond to us a letter which he had in the morn receivd from the Governor of Timor the particulars of it were now discussd it acquainted him that a ship had been seen off that Island & had