Endeavour journal, 23 January 1770 (Series 03.516)

Notes:	Page header reads: 'Totarra nue'
Author:	Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
Date:	23 January 1770
Series title:	Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771
Frame numbers:	CY 3010 / 133
Transcript:	23. Disagreable day squally with rain so we all staid at home. Mr Monkhouse told me today that the day before yesterday he was ashore in a place where were many Indian houses deserted: here he saw several things tied up to the branches of trees, particularly hair of a man which he brought away with him, enough to have made a sizeable wig. This inducd him to think the place he had seen was a place consecrated to religious purposes. Possibly it was as they certainly have such places among them tho I have not yet been lucky enough to meet with them.

Papers of Sir Joseph Banks