Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0011
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To Madeira
Septr. 1768
them threw the cast-net fastned to nothing but his wrist, the string slippd from him & the net at once sunk into the profound never more to torment its inhabitants but Leaving us for some time intirely without a resource, plenty of animals coming past the ship, & no netts but in the hold, stowd under so many things that it was impossible even to hope for their being got out today at Least, however an old hoop net was fastned to a fishing rod, & with it one new speces of Dagysa was caught and calld Lobata.
6. Fine & calm this morn, immence numbers of Dagysa Lobata floated by, & were taken by our new contrivance, some of them in clusters as many as 14 together, united by a Lobe on the underside. as appears in the figure Towards the Middle of the day the sea was almost coverd with dagysa's of different kinds