Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0013
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To Madeira
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these were generaly found a few specimens of cornuta, from which circamstance we may Judge that they are very nearly allied.
it seems singular that no naturalist before this time should have taken notice of these animals as they abound so much where the ship now is not twenty Leagues from the coast of Spain; from hence however great hopes may be formd, that the inhabitants of the deep have been but little examind, & as Dr Solander and my self shall have probably greater opportunity in the course of this voyage than any one has had before us, it is a very incouraging circumstance to hope that so large a feild of natural history has remaind almost untrod, even till this time, & that we may be able from this circumstance alone (almost unthought of when we embarkd in the undertaking) to add considerable