Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0688
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Some account of St. Helena
till you have penetrated beyond the first hills then the Vallies begin to be green & tho every where inconceivably steep produce a great deal of good herbage
[Margin note] Planters houses
among these are the planters houses near each of which is a small Plantation of Cocos the only vegetable they seem to labour much in the Cultivation of
The Town stands just by the sea side very small & except a few houses ill built the Church which originaly has been a very poor building is now almost in ruins & the Market house is advancing by quick steps to the same situation
The White inhabitants are almost to a man English who as they are not allowd to have any trade or commerce of their own live intirely by supplying such ships as touch at the Place with refreshments of which however to their Shame be it spoken they appear to have by no means a supply equal to the extent as well as fertility of their soil as well as