28 July 1770

Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

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28 July 1770 28. Botanizing with no kind of success. The Plants were now intirely compleated and nothing new to be found, so that sailing is all we wish for if the wind would but allow us. Dind today upon the animal, who eat but ill, he was I suppose too old. His fault however was an uncommon one, the total want of flavour, for he was certainly the most insipid meat I eat. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) *231, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17700728.html