Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0014
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To Madeira
Septr. 6
Light to the science which we so eagerly Pursue.
This Evening a large quantity of the Carcinium opalinum which may be calld opal insect came under the ships stern, making the very sea appear with uncommon beaty, their colours appearing with vast brightness even at the depth of two or three fathoms, tho they are not more than three lines long & one broad.
7. On examining the Dagysa's which were taken yesterday, several small animals were found Lodgd in the hollow parts of their bodys, & some in the very substance of the flesh, which seems to be their food, as many of the dagysas were full of scars which had undoubtedly been the Lodgment of these animals some time before; upon a minute inspection they provd to be animals not to be class'd under any of Linnaeus's genera