Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 16 April 1770 (Series 03.600)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Towards New South Wales' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
16 April 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 240 |
| Transcript: |
16. No dew this morn: weather moderate and cloudy. In the Morn Tupia saw a large float of sea weed and shewd it to one other man; it was however so far from the ship that no one else saw it. At noon Our second Lieutenant observd a small Butterfly as he thought. At night some Thunder and a fresh gale at SW, with a heavy swell which seemd to keep rather to the Westward of the Wind. Many Albatrosses and black shearwaters were about the ship. At night a small land bird came on board about the size of a sparrow; some of the boys tried to catch it but it got from them in the rigging and was never seen after. |
