Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 25 June 1770 (Series 03.670)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Endeavours River' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
25 June 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 306 |
| Transcript: |
25. In gathering plants today I myself had the good fortune to see the beast so much talkd of, tho but imperfectly; he was not only like a grey hound in size and running but had a long tail, as long as any grey hounds; what to liken him to I could not tell, nothing certainly that I have seen at all resembles him. |
