Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0511
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Octr.1770 Batavia
individual had ever been at Batavia before who had not something or other to sell. I also hird 2 Carriages which are a kind of open Chaises made to hold two people & drove by a man setting on a Coachbox for each of these I paid 2 Rxr 8s/ a day by the Month & now being fairly settled we sent for Tupia ashore to us who had till now remaind on board on account of his Illness which was of the Bilious kind & for which he had all along refusd to take any medecines on his arrival his spirits which had long been very low were instantly raisd by the sights which he saw & his boy Tayeto who had always been perfectly well was allmost ready to run mad houses Carriages streets in short every thing were to him sights which he had often heard describd but never well understood so he lookd upon them all with more than wonder almost mad with the numberless