Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0238
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Towards new South Wales.
very large Doris complanata & Beroe biloba saw a large shoal of Esox Scombroides leaping out of the water in a very extrordinary manner pursued by a large fish which I saw but could not strike tho I did two of the former in the Evening saw several fish much Resembling Bonitos
The weather we have had for these Nine days past & the things we have seen upon the Sea are so Extrordinary that I cannot help recapitulating a little the Weather in the first place which till the fifth was cool or rather cold became at once troublesomely hot bringing with it a mouldy dampness such as we have experiencd between the tropicks the Thermometer at this time although it shewd a considerable difference in the degree of heat did was not near so sensible of it as our bodies which I beleive is generaly the case when a damp air accompanies warmth during the continuance of this weather the inhabitants of the seas between the tropicks appeard the Tropick bird, flying fish & Medusa Porpita are animals very seldom seen without out of the influence of trade winds several others also are such as I have never before seen in so high a latitude & never before in such perfection