Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 31 August 1768 (Series 03.007)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'to Madeira' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
31 August 1768 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 8 |
| Transcript: |
31. Wind Freshend again this morn; observ'd about the Ship several of the Birds calld by the seamen Mother Careys chickens, Procellaria Pelagica Linn. which were thought by them to be a sure presage of a storm, as indeed it provd, for before night it blew so hard as to bring us under our Courses, and make me very sea sick again. |
