Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0705
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[Page 705]
601.
June 1771. Passage Homeward
brought him to terms at last.
20. Saw a large ship ahead which on our lowering our foretopsail hoisted a flag at her maintopmast head she soon however made sail & left us
21. About noon we discoverd a fleet of 13 sail of large ships on our weather quarter these we doubted not were our consorts the India fleet. one Shearwater was seen
22. The Fleet held so much better a wind than us that the fairly went out of sight to windward of us who indeed had split both our Topgallant sails in a squall
23. Wind very foul Saw one Shearwater the reason of so few having been seen this passage may be that during their breeding time they do not wander far out at Sea
30. Both yesterday & today a few Shearwaters were seen in the night many were about the ship crying very much.