Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 23 December 1768 (Series 03.117)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'To Cape Horn' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
23 December 1768 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 178 |
| Transcript: |
23. This morn calm again: went out shooting, killd another new procellaria, aequorea, and many of the sorts we had seen yesterday; caught Holothuria angustata, a species of floating helix much smaller than those under the line, Phyllodoce velella very small, sometimes not so large as a silver penny ye: I beleive the common species; in the evening went out again, killd an albatross Diomedaea exulans, who measurd 9 ft 1 inch between the tipps of his wings, and struck one turtle testudo caretta. |
