Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0470
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Some account of Savu
different appartments we did not learn only were told that the loft was appropriated to the women
The shortness of our stay & few opportunities we had of going among these people gave us no opportunities of seing what arts or manufactures they might have among them that they spin weave & dye their cloth we however made a shift to learn for tho I we never saw them practise any of these arts yet the instruments of them we accidentaly fell in our way first a machine for clearing cotton of its seeds which was made in miniature much upon the same principles as ours in Europe it consisting of 2 cylinders about as thick as a mans thumb the one of which was turnd round by a plain wynch handle & that turnd the other round by an endless worm at their extremities the whole was not above 7 inches high & about twice as long how it answerd I know not but know that it had been much workd & that there were many peices of cotton hanging on different parts of it which alone inducd me to beleive it a real