Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0656
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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope
houses quite free from its effects however close they are shut up the Sand will find an entrance & in a short time cover every kind of furniture with a thick dust
Inconvenient as this certainly is it however does not seem to have any effect beyond the present moment tho the inhabitants must in the course of a summer inspire an immence quantity of this Sand which has been thought by some Physicians to be productive of Ulcers in the Lungs &c &c yet Consumptions are diseases scarcely known here & the healthy countenances fresh complexions & above all the number of Children with which all ranks of people here are blessd abundantly prove that the Climate in general is very freindly to the human constitution
Diseases brought here from Europe are said to be almost immediately cur'd but those of the Indies not so easily which latter we