Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0660
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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope
a more or less expensive method of living in what may truly be calld a profusion in proportion to the price you give besides this there is hardly an expence in the Place Coaches are seldom or never usd but may be hird at the rate of 6 Rx or 1lb 4s. a day Horses are at 6s. a day but the Countrey is not tempting enough to induce any one often to make use of them Publick entertainments there are none nor were there any private ones owing to the measles which broke out about the time of our arrival at other times I was told that there were & that strangers were always welcome to them if of any rank
[Margin note] Garden
At the farther end of the high street is the Companies garden which is near 2/3 of an English mile in lengh the whole is divided by walks intersecting each other at right angles planted with Oaks which are clippd into wall hedges except in the Center walk where they are sufferd to grow to their size this walk therefore at all times of the