Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0637
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[Page 637]
533.
Janry 1771. To the Cape of Good Hope
the Ships Company were now ill with either fluxes or severe purgings myself far from well, Mr Sporing very ill & Mr Parkinson very little better his complaint was a slow fever.
23. Myself was too ill today to do any thing one of our people died of the flux in the Evening
24. My distemper this day turnd out to be a flux attended (as that disease always is) with excrutiating pains in my bowels on which I took to my bed in the Eve Mr Sporing died
25. One more of the People died today. Myself endurd the pains of the Damnd almost at night they became fixd in one point in my bowels on which the surgeon of the ship though proper to order me the hot bath into which I went 4 times at the intervals of two hours & felt great releif
26. Tho better than yesterday my pains were still almost intolerable in the Evening Mr Parkinson died & one of the ships crew
28. Self something easier but still in great pain this day Mr Green our astronomer & two of