Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 20 September 1768 (Series 03.024)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'to Brasil' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
20 September 1768 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 53 |
| Transcript: |
20. Still almost calm, which gave us an opportunity of taking with the casting nett a most beautifull species of Medusa, of a colour equaling if not exceeding the finest ultramarine; it was describd and calld Medusa azurea. |