Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 4 October 1769 (Series 03.405)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'in search of the Southern Continent' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
4 October 1769 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 18
CY 3010 / 19 |
| Transcript: |
4. Several small peices of sea weed are seen today but no heaps; weather pleasant, breeze rather of the gentlest. Towards evening we were entertaind by a large shoal of Porpoises like those of the 30th of last month; they came up to the ship in prodigious circl[in]g action leaping out of the water sometimes 2 or 3 feet high as nimbly as Bonetos; immediately after them came a number of a larger sort quite black who movd very heavy in the water; both these troops kept their course by the ship without taking much notice of her probably in pursuit of some prey. |
