Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 28 September 1770 (Series 03.766)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'to Batavia' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
28 September 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 490
CY 3010 / 491 |
| Transcript: |
28. Squally in the night with rain and fine fresh trade shov'd us on Merrily. Our beef experiment was this day tried and succeeded but scurvily. The meat which had been killd on the 26th was not salted till Cold: it hardly stunk: the outside which had been in absolute contact with the salt was quite good but under that which formd a crust of various thickness the meat was in a wonderfull manner corrupted; it lookd well but every fibre was destroyd and disolv'd so that the whole was a paste of the consistence of soft putty yet this hard[l]y stunk. Some Gannets and Man of War birds were about the Ship. |
