Endeavour journal, 13 September 1770 (Series 03.751)

Notes:	Page header reads: 'off Timor'
Author:	Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
Date:	13 September 1770
Series title:	Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771
Frame numbers:	CY 3010 / 425 CY 3010 / 426
Transcript:	13. With the wind as foul as ever we continued to ply along shore, not gaining much and being too far off to see any thing but large fires of which were several ashore. Our Croakers began now to talk of the westerly monsoon, and say that they had sometime thought that the unusual Briskness of the Trade wind for some days before we fell in with this Island was a sure prognostick of it.

Papers of Sir Joseph Banks