Endeavour journal, 29 September 1769 (Series 03.400)

Notes:	Page header reads: 'in search of the Southern Continent'
Author:	Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
Date:	29 September 1769
Series title:	Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771
Frame numbers:	CY 3010 / 16 CY 3010 / 17
Transcript:	29. Pleasant weather: birds more plentiful than usual in such weather; about noon saw one like a snipe but less and with a short bill which I judge to be a land bird. Mr Gore saw a bird which he calls a Port Egmont hen which he describes to be brown on the back, like a gull in size and shape, but flyes like a crow flapping its wings. Some large heaps of seaweed have been seen; some of the gentlemen upon deck think that the colour of the water is chang'd consequently we are in soundings.

Papers of Sir Joseph Banks