Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0662
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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope
a vivarium or Menagerie, supported also at the expence of the Company where rare Beasts & birds are kept here were Ostrigdes Cassowaris Antilopes of several kinds Zebras & several other animals seldom or never seen in Europe particularly that calld by the Hottentots Coedoe whose beautifull spiral horns are often brought over to Europe this animal who was as large as a horse died while we were there but not before I had had time to get a description & drawing of him
Near this enclosure is another for birds in which were the Crownd Pidgeons of Banda & several more rare birds especialy of the Duck kind of which were indeed a very fine collection both birds & beasts were very carefully & well taken care of
It remains now after having describd the town & its environs to say a little of the Countrey about it of this indeed I can say but little & even for that little am