Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 10 January 1769 (Series 03.135)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'To Cape Horn' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
10 January 1769 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 190
CY 3006 / 191 |
| Transcript: |
10. Fine weather: Seals plentifully today and a kind of birds different from any we have before seen, they were black and a little larger than pidgeons, plump like them and easily known by their flapping their wings quick as they fly contrary to the custom of sea birds in general. This evening a shoal of Porpoises swam by the ship different from any I have seen, spotted with large dabbs of white and white under the belly, in other respects as swimming &c. like common porpoises only they leap rather more nimbly, sometimes lifting their whole bodys out of the water. |
