Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 13 May 1770 (Series 03.627)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'New South Wales' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
13 May 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 266 |
| Transcript: |
13. Wind off shore today, it let us however come in with the land. Many porpoises were about the ship. At Noon several fires ashore, one very large which I judgd to be at least a league inland. Innumerable shoals of fish about the ship in the afternoon and some birds of the Nectris kind. |
