Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 24 August 1769 (Series 03.364)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Standing to the Southward' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
24 August 1769 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 5 |
| Transcript: |
24. The morning was calm. About 9 it began to flow fresh with rain which came on without the least warning, at the same time a water spout was seen to leward; it appeard to me so inconsiderable that had I not been shewd it I should not have particularly notic'd the apearance; it resembled a line of thick mist, as thick as a midling tree, which reachd not in a strait line almost to the waters edge and in a few minutes totaly disapeard; its distance I suppose made it appear so trifling, as the Seamen judg'd it not less than 2 or 3 miles from us. Many Birds about the ship, Pintado, Common and Southern Albatross. |
