Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0075
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To Brazil
Octr. 1768
I proposd to the Captain to touch for part of a day at least at the Island of Ferdinand Norronha which he had no objection to if we could fetch it that however seemd to prevent very uncertain. This Evening we saw 6 or 7 large fish of the whale kind which the Seamen calld Grampuses tho I think they were very different from the fish commonly so calld they were however Certainly of the whale kind & blew throug two? pipes on the top of their heads they had heads smaller & rounder than those fish in general have & very low back finns & very small tails thus much was all that I could see as they never came within two cables lengh of the ship
23. Trade today was still more to the Southward almost due South so that we tackd & stood to the eastward lest we should fall in with the coast of Brazil to the Northward of Cape Frio