Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 16 July 1770 (Series 03.691)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Endeavours River' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
16 July 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 324
CY 3010 / 325 |
| Transcript: |
16. As the ship was now nearly ready for her departure Dr Solander and myself employd ourselves in winding up our Botanical Bottoms, examining what we wanted, and making up our complement of specimens of as many species as possible. The Boat brought 3 Turtle again today, one of which was a male which was easily to be distinguishd from the female by the vast size of his tail, which was four times longer and thicker than hers; in every other respect they were exactly alike. One of our people on board the ship who has been a Turtler in the West Indies told me that they never sent male Turtle home to England from thence because they wasted in keeping much more than the females, which we found to be true. |
