Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 24 June 1770 (Series 03.669)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Endeavours River' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
24 June 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 306 |
| Transcript: |
24. Gathering plants and hearing descriptions of the animal which is now seen by every body. A seaman who had been out in the woods brought home the description of an animal he had seen composd in so Seamanlike a stile that I cannot help mentioning it: it was (says he) about as large and much like a one gallon cagg, as black as the Devil and had 2 horns on its head, it went but Slowly but I dard not touch it. |
