Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 6 January 1770 (Series 03.499)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'West Coast'; 'of Cape Maria van Diemen' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
6 January 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 118
CY 3010 / 119 |
| Transcript: |
6. Calm today: myself in the Boat shot Procellaria longipes, velox and Diomedaea exulans (the Albatross). I had an opportunity to see this last setting upon the water and as it is commonly said by seamen that they cannot in a calm rise upon the wing I tryd the experiment. There were two of them, one I shot dead, the other who was near him swam off near as fast as my small boat could row; we gave chase and came up a little; he attempted to fly by taking the moment of a waves falling but did not succeed. I who was so far off that I knew I could not hurt him fird at him to make his attempts more vigourous, which had the effect for the third effort he got upon the wing, tho I beleive had it not been for a little swell upon the water he could not have done it. |
