Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0525
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Novr. 1770. Batavia
repaird, & very well too in the opinion of Every body who saw the duch artificers do their work
This completion of our repairs, gave us hopes that our stay here would no be of no very long duration, as we had now nothing to do but to get on board our stores & provisions, but our hopes were not a little dampd by the accounts we every day had from the ship, where the people were so sickly that not above 13 or 14 were able to stand to their work
Dr Solander grew better tho by very slow degrees, myself soon had a return of my ague which now became quotidian, the Captain also was taken ill on board, & of course we sent his servant to him, soon after which both Mr Sporing & our seaman were seizd with intermittents, so that we were again reduc'd to the