Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 2 September 1768 (Series 03.009)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'to Madeira' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
2 September 1768 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 8
CY 3006 / 9 |
| Transcript: |
2. This Morn about 7 saw the coast of Gallicia between Cape Ortegal and Finisterre; weather tolerably fine, so that we could use the casting net, which brought up two kinds of Animals, different from any before taken; they came up in Clusters, both sorts indifferen[t]ly in each Cluster, tho much fewer of the Horned ones than of the others. They seem to [be] two species of one genus, but are not at all reducible to any genus hitherto describd |
