Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0067
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Octr. 1768
easily discharges on being touched, this is of a most beautifull red purple colour, & easily dies linnen clothes, it may be well worth inquiry whether or not this is the purpura of the ancients as the shell is certainly found in the Mediterranean. We have not yet taken a sufficient quantity of the shells to try the experiment probably we shall do soon.
Procellaria oceanica differs very little from P. pelagica Linn, but from his place of abode so far south & some small difference in plumage it is more than likely that he is different in species.
8. A fine Breze today, employd in figuring &c. what was taken yesterday.
9. This morn a shark calld us out of our bedds, & was soon hookd, but as soon broke his hold & went off: at noon go went out in