Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 2 January 1769 (Series 03.127)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'To Cape Horn' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
2 January 1769 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 185 |
| Transcript: |
2. Fresh breezes today. In the Evening, Lat. about 45:30, met with some small shoals of the red lobsters which have been seen by almost every one who has pass'd these seas. They were however so far from couloring the sea red as Dampier and Cowley say that I may affirm that we never saw more than a few hundreds of them at a time, we took however several in the Casting and hoave netts and describd them by the name of Cancer Gregarius. |
