Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0670
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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope
legs backwards & forwards &c. others again as dull & spiritless as can be imagind one of which consists intirely of Beating the earth first with one foot & then with the other without moving their place at all to the Cadences of a tune furnishd with little more variety than the Dance
Smoaking is a custom most generaly usd among them in doing which they do not as the Europeans admit the smoak no farther than their mouths who but like the Chinese suck it into their Lungs where they keep it for near a minute before they expire it they commonly mix with their Tobacco the leaves of Hemp which they cultivate for that purpose or Phlomisleonurus which they call Dacha their food is the same as that of the farmers cheifly bread & coarse cheese but they are immensely fond of spirituous liquors & will never fail to get drunk with them if they have an opportunity