Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0233
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Off Cape Horn
Janry 1769
21. Saild this morn the wind Foul but our keeping boxes being full of new plants we little regarded any wind provided it was but moderate enough to let the draughtsmen work who to do them justice are now so used to the sea that it must blow a gale of wind before they leave off
22. Weather pleasant but a little cold wind came to the Northward & we get a little westing
23. At day break this morn there was land almost all round us which we judged to be Terra del Fuego Not far from the streights & attributed the little way we had made to the strengh of the current setting us to the Eastward our old Freind the sugar loaf was now in sight who seemd to have followd us for he was certainly much nearer to us now than he was when we saw him last on the other side of the streights
24. Many Islands about us today weather very moderate one of the Islands was surrounded by small pointed rocks standing out of the water like the needles
Ever since we left the streights the albatrosses that have flown about the ship have either been or appeard much larger than those seen before we enterd them but the weather has