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21 October 1770 21. After Petitioning and Repetitioning the Council of the Indies our affairs were at last settled and orders given to heave down the Ship with all expedition, so she this Day went down to Kuyper calld by the English Coopers Island where a warehouse was allotted for her to lay up her stores &c. We now began sensibly to feel the ill Effects of the unwholesome climate we were in: our appetites and spirits were gone but none were yet realy sick except poor Tupia and Tayeto, both of which grew worse and worse daily so that I began once more to despair of poor Tupias life. At last he desird to be removd to the ship where he said he should breathe a freeer air clear of the numerous houses which he beleivd to be the cause of his disease by stopping the free draught.
© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) 413, 2004 Published by South Seas, using the Web Academic Resource Publisher To cite this page use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ss-jrnl-banks-17701021 |