Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0054
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To Brazil
Septr. 23
much above the clouds (I mean those which form a bank near the Horizon) the hill itself was so faint, that no man who was not used to the appearance of land at a great distance could tell it from a cloud, it soon however appeard something clearer & a sketch was made of it.
While we were engagd in looking at the hill a fish was taken which was describ'd & called Scomber serpens; the seamen said they had never seen such a one before except the first lieutenant, who rememberd to have taken one before just about these Islands; Sr Hans Sloane in his Passage out to Jamaica also took one of these fish which he gives a figure of, Vol.1, Pl. T.1, f.2.
The Pike continued in sight almost all day, tho sometimes obscurd by the clouds,