Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0018
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Seeking for the Southern Continent
chang'd consequently we are in soundings
30. Pleasant weather several small peices of weed go by the ship one was taken with the hoave or dipping net it seemd not to have been long at sea as it was not much broken or rubbd
October
1 Very little wind & yet vast quantities of small birds are about the ship which has been to us a very uncommon sight in such fine weather a Seal seen from the ship several peices of sea weed are taken & among them a peice of wood quite overgrown with sertularias it must have been a long time at Sea yet more hopes are drawn from this than the sea weed as we now have in our possession a part of the produce of our Land of Promise among the weed are many sea insects which are put into spirits weed wood and all so we shall at least have this to shew Several whales have been seen today.
2. Calm I go in the boat & take up Dagysa rostrata Serena polyedra Beroe incrassata coarctata medusa vitrea Phyllodoce velella with several other things which are all put in spirits without See a seal but cannot come near him to shoot Shoot Diomedea exulans Procellaria velox lavipes pallipes Latirostris longipes & Nectris munia fuliginosa