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John Gerard : The Herball or General Historie of Plants
'During his holidays he found on his mother's dressing-table an old torn copy of Gerard's "Herbal", having the names and figures of some of the plants with which he had formed an imperfect acquaintance; and he carried it back with him to school.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Georg Eberhard Rumphius : Herbarium Amboinensis
'The growth of the Rhizophora also pleased me much, although I had before a very good idea of it from Rumphius, who has a very good figure of the tree in his Herb. Amboin. [v. iii. tab. 71, 72]'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
George Shelvocke : A Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South Sea
'We took Beroe incrassata, Medusa limpidissima, plicata and obliquata, Alcyonium anguillare (probably the thing that Shelvoke mentions in his "Voyage Round the World" p. 60), and A. frustrum, Ulva intestinalis, and Corallina officinalis.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Charles De Brosses : Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, contenant ce que l'on sait des moeurs et des productions des contr?es d?couvertes jusqu'? ce jour
'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making any material observations upon it; so that all we can say is, that it was the southernmost land we saw, and does not answer badly to the description of Cape Horn given by the French, who place it upon an island, and say that it is two bluff headlands (vide Histoire des Navigat. aux terres australes, tom i. p. 356).'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
[uknown-ship's cook?] : [recipe]
'This cabbage we have eaten every day since we left Cape Horn, and have now good store remaining; as good, to our palates at least, and fully as green and pleasing to the eye as if it were bought fresh every morning at Covent Garden Market. Our steward has given me the receipt, which I shall copy exactly - false spelling excepted.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Manuscript: Sheet, Hand written recipe.
Hulme : [book with medical directions]
'About a fortnight ago my gums swelled, and some small pimples rose on the inside of my mouth, which threatened to become ulcers; I flew to the lemon juice, which had been put up for me according to Dr. Hulme's method, described in his book, and in his letter, which is inserted here.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Patrick Browne : The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica
'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and Rumphius says of his Bancudus angustifolia, which is very nearly allied to our nono, that it is used by the inhabitants of the East Indian Islands as a fixing drug for the colour of red, with which he says it particularly agrees.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Georg Eberhard Rumphius : Herbarium Amboinensis
'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and Rumphius says of his Bancudus angustifolia, which is very nearly allied to our nono, that it is used by the inhabitants of the East Indian Islands as a fixing drug for the colour of red, with which he says it particularly agrees.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Charles de Brosse : Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes
'From the vocabularies given in Le Maire's voyage (see Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 410) it appears clearly that the languages given there as those of the Isles of Solomon and the Isle of Cocos are radically the identical language we met with, most words differing in little, but the greater number of consonants.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Rene Augustin Constantin de Renneville : A collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of trade & navigation ...
'I shall give them from a book called a "Collection of Voyages by the Dutch East Company", Lond. 1703, p. 116, where, supposing the author who speaks of ten numbers and gives only nine to have lost the fifth, their similarity is beyond dispute.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Alexander Dalrymple : An Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean, previous to 1764
'He was covered with a fine cloth of a manufacture totally new to us; it was tied on exactly as represented in Mr. Dalrymple's book, p. 63; his hair was also tied in a knot on the top of his head, but there was no feather stuck in it; his complexion brown but not very dark.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Abel Jansen Tasman : [unknown]
'The men in these boats were dressed much as they are represented in Tasman's figure, that is, two corners of the cloth they wore were passed over their shoulders and fastened to the rest of it just below their breasts; but few or none had feathers in their hair.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Amedee Francois Frezier : Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux c?tes du Chili, et du Peron, fair pendent les annees, 1712, 1713, et 1714
'We had also that fish described by Frezier in his voyage to Spanish South America by the name of "elefant, pejegallo" or "poisson coq" which, though coarse, we made shift to eat, and several species of skate or sting-rays, which were abominably coarse.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Fredrik Hasselquist : Iter Palestinum
'In examining a fig which we had found at our last going ashore, we found in the fruit a "Cynips", very like, if not exactly the same species as "Cynips sycomori", Linn., described by Hasselquist in his Iter Palestinum, a strong proof of the fact that figs must be impregnated by means of insects, though indeed that fact wanted not any additional proofs.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Sir Hans Sloane : History of Jamaica
'The gum-trees were like those in the last bay, both in leaf and in producing a very small proportion of gum; on the branches of them and other trees were large ants' nests, made of clay, as big as a bushel, something like those described in Sir Hans Sloane's "History of Jamaica", vol. II. pp. 221 to 258, but not so smooth.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere
'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female, and with it I took two young ones. It was not unlike that remarkable one which De Buffon has described by the name of "Phalanger" as an American animal. It was, however, not the same. M. de Buffon is certainly wrong in asserting that this tribe is peculiar to America, and in all probability, as Pallas has said in his "Zoologia" the "Phalanger" itself is a native of the East Indies, as my animals and that agree in the extraordinary conformation of their feet, in which particular they differ from all the others.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Peter Simon Pallas : Miscellanea Zoologia
'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female, and with it I took two young ones. It was not unlike that remarkable one which De Buffon has described by the name of "Phalanger" as an American animal. It was, however, not the same. M. de Buffon is certainly wrong in asserting that this tribe is peculiar to America, and in all probability, as Pallas has said in his "Zoologia" the "Phalanger" itself is a native of the East Indies, as my animals and that agree in the extraordinary conformation of their feet, in which particular they differ from all the others.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
William Dampier : "Voyage Round the World" or "Voyage to New Holland"
'Having now, I believe, fairly passed through between New Holland and New Guinea, and having an open sea to the westward, so that to-morrow we intend to steer more to the northwards in order to make the south coast of New Guinea, it seems high time to take leave of New Holland, which I shall do by summing up the few observations I have been able to make on the country and people. I much wished, observing the people, as they differ so much from the account that Dampier (the only man I know of who has seen them besides us) has given of them: he indeed saw them on a part of the coast very distant from where we were, and consequently the people might be different; but I should rather conclude them to be the same, chiefly from having observed an universal confomity in such of their customs as came under my observation in the several places we landed upon during the run along the coast. Dampier in general seems to be a faithful relater; but in the voyage in which he touched on the coast of New Holland he was in a ship of pirates; possibly himself not a little tainted by their idle examples, he might have kept no written journal of anything more than the navigation of the ship, and when upon coming home he was solicited to publish an account of his voyage, may have referred to his memory for many particulars relating to the people, etc. These Indians, when covered with their filth, which I believe they never wash off, are, if not coal black, very near it. As negroes, then, he might well esteem them, and add the woolly hair and want of two front teeth in consequence of the similitude in complexion between these and the natives of Africa; but from whatever cause it might arise, certain it is that Dampier either was very much mistaken in his account, or else saw a very different race of people from those we have seen.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
William Dampier : "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland"
'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "Sanjuis draconis", as possibly also that which Tasman saw upon Van Diemen's Land, where he says he saw gum on the trees, and gum lac on the ground.' (See his voyage in a collection published at London in 1694, p. 133)
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Abel Janszoon Tasman : [unknown]
'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "Sanjuis draconis", as possibly also that which Tasman saw upon Van Diemen's Land, where he says he saw gum on the trees, and gum lac on the ground.' (See his voyage in a collection published at London in 1694, p. 133)
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon : Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere
'The third was of the opossum kind, and much resembled that called by De Buffon "Phalanger". Of these two last I took only one individual of each. Bats here were many: one small one was much if not identically the same as that described by De Buffon under the name of "Fer de cheval". Another sort was as large as, or larger than, a partridge; but of this species we were not fortunate enough to take one. We supposed it, however, to be the "Rousette" or "Rougette" of the same author.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Georg Eberhard Rumphius : Herbarium Aboinense
'When first we found the tree, we of course gathered the branches, and were surprised to find our hands instantly covered with legions of these small animals, who stung most intolerably; experience, however, taught us to be more careful for the future. Rhumphius mentions a similar instance to this in his "Herbarium Amboinense", vol. ii. p. 257; his tree, however, does not at all resemble ours.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Georg Eberhard Rumphius : Herbarium Aboinense
'The chief inconvenience in handling the roots came from the infinite number; myriads would come in an instant out of many holes, and running over the hand tickle so as to be scarcely endurable. Rhumphius has an account of this very bulb and its ants in vol. vi. p.120, where he describes also another sort, the ants of which are black.'
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William Dampier : "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland"
'All the shoals that were dry at half ebb afforded plenty of fish, left dry in small hollows of the rocks, and a profusion of large shell-fish (Chama gigas) such as Dampier describes, vol. iii. p. 191.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
William Dampier : "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland"
'In the evening a small bird of the noddy (Sterna) kind hovered about the ship, and at night settled on the rigging, where it was taken, and proved exactly the same bird as Dampier has described, and given a rude figure of, under the name of a noddy from New Holland (see his Voyages, vol. iii. p. 98, table of birds, Fig. 5).'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Amedee Francois Frezier : Relation d'un voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili et du Perou
'I have been told that this very method was proposed in the "Gentleman's Magazine" many years ago, but have not the book on board. Frezier, in his voyage to the South Sea, describes a contrivance of the Peruvian Indians upon the same principles, plate 31, p. 273, but his drawing and plan are difficult to understand, if not actually very faulty, and his description is nothing; the drawing may serve, however, to give an idea to a man who has never seen a thing of the kind.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Francois Valentijn : Oudt en Nieuw Oost-Indie
'All I can say is that when seen from the top of a building, from whence the eye takes it in at one view, it does not look nearly so large as it seems to be when you walk about it. Valentijn, who wrote about and before the year 1726, says that in his time there wre within the walls 1242 Dutch houses, and 1200 Chinese; without 1066 Dutch and 1240 Chinese, besides twelve arrack houses. This number, however, appeared to me to be very highly exaggerated, those within the walls especially.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
Georg Eberhard Rumphius : Herbrium Aboinensis
'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable to it. Rumphius says that they are sometimes so large that a man cannot easily lift one of them: the Malays told me that at Madura they were so large that two men could but carry one of them; at Batavia, however, they never exceed the size of a large melon, which in shape they resemble, but are coated over with angular spines like the shootings of some crystals: they are, however, soft, and do not at all prick any one who handles them.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that have already been published, as every one has been written by people who had much better opportunities of seeing them, and more time to examine them than I have had. Indeed, a man need go no farther to study them than the China paper, the better sorts of which represent their persons, and such of their customs, dresses, etc., as I have seen, most strikingly like, though a little in the "caricatura" style. Indeed, some of the plants which are common to China and Java, as bamboo, are better figured there than in the best botanical authors that I have seen.'
