Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 22 October 1768 (Series 03.056)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'to Brasil' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
22 October 1768 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 74
CY 3006 / 75 |
| Transcript: |
22. Trade had got more to the Southward that it usualy had been, which was unlucky for me as I proposd to the Captain to touch for part of a day at least at the Island of Ferdinand Norronha, which he had no objection to if we could fetch it: that however seemd very uncertain. This Evening we saw 6 or 7 large fish of the whale kind which the Seamen calld Grampuses tho I think they were very different from the fish commonly so calld; they were however Certainly of the whale kind and blew throug[h] two? pipes on the top of their heads. They had heads smaller and rounder than those fish in general have and very low back finns and very small tails; thus much was all that I could see as they never came within two cables lengh of the ship. |
