Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0006
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Standing to the Southward
intirely subsisted upon them of which we have no small number who I fear will feel the loss of them most sensibly as not one I beleive has yet eat the smallest proportion of English food
22. Fresh breeze of wind but little sea. Several Albatrosses and Pintado birds about the ship today
23. Light breeze our hogs and fowls begin to die apace of the latter a great many want of proper food and cold which now begins to pinch even us is I suppose the cause afternoon calm many Albatrosses and Pintado birds about the ship
24. The morning was calm about 9. it began to flow fresh with rain which came on without the least warning at the same time a water spout was seen to Leward it appeard to me so inconsiderable that had I not been shewd it I should not have particularly notic'd the apearance it resembled a line of thick mist as thick as a midling tree which reachd not in a strait line almost to the waters edge and in a few minutes totaly disapeard its distance I suppose made it appear so trifling, as the Seamen judg'd it not less than 2. or 3. miles from us. Many Birds about the ship Pintado. Common and Southern Albatross
25. Less wind today but the swell occasiond by yesterdays wind still troublesome birds today about the ship Pintado Common and Southern Albatross and a shearwater in size and shape like the common