Endeavour journal, 15 October 1768 (Series 03.049)
| Notes: | Page header reads: 'to Brasil' |
| Author: | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: | 15 October 1768 |
| Series title: | Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
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| Transcript: | 15. Ventur'd out today, but found the surface of the water so ruffled that nothing at all floated upon it, I had the good fortune however to see a bird of the shearwater kind which I shot, and it provd to be not describd; it was about as large as the common but differd from it in being whiter, especialy about the face: calld it Procellaria crepidata, as its feet were like the gulls shot last week, black without but white near the leggs. A large shoal of fish were all this day under the shipp's stern, playing about, but refusing to take bait; we however contrivd to take one of them with a fish gigg, which provd not describd; it was in make and appearance like a Carp, weighing near two pounds, its sides were ornamented with narrow yellow lines and its finns almost intirely coverd with scales: calld it Chaetodon cyprinaceus. |
