Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 26 July 1770 (Series 03.701)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Endeavours River' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
26 July 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 335 |
| Transcript: |
26. In botanizing to day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the Opossum (Didelphis) tribe: it was a female and with it I took two young ones. It was not unlike that remarkable one which De Bufon has decribd by the name of Phalanger as an American animal; it was however not the same for De Buffon is certainly wrong in asserting that this tribe is peculiar to America; and in all probability, as Pallas has said in his Zoologia, the Phalanger itself is a native of the East Indies, as my animal and that agree in the extrordinary conformation of their feet in which particular they differ from all the others. |
