Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 2 April 1769 (Series 03.218)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'South Sea' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
2 April 1769 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 249
CY 3006 / 250 |
| Transcript: |
2. Many birds today about noon passd by the ship making a noise something like gulls, they were black upon the back and white under the belly probably of the sterna kind; in company with them were 20 or 30 Men of war birds soaring over the flock, probably the whole were in pursuit of a shoal of fish. |
