Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0499
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Octr. 1770. Streights of Sunda
large fowls two Monkies or a whole cage of Paddy birds
4. Lightning in the night. in the morn calms & light breezes not sufficient to stem the current which was very strong to make our situation as tantalizing as possible innumerable Proas were sailing about us in all directions. a boat was sent ashore for grass & landed at an Indian town where by hard bargaining some Cocoa nuts were bought at about three halfpence a peice & rice at about in the straw at about 5 farthings a gallon neither here or in any other place where we have had connections with them would they take any money but Spanish dollars Large quantities of that floating substance which I have often mentiond before under the name of Sea Saw dust had been seen ever since we came into the Streights & more particularly today; among it were many leaves, fruits, old stalks of Plantain trees, Plants of Pistia Stratiotes & such like trash from whence we almost concluded that it came out of some river. at noon by a good Observation we found Pulo Pissang off which we lay at an anchor to be laid down 5 miles to far to the Northward in La Neptune Oriental