Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0082
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To Brazil
of which I have wrote an account on separate papers that the different experiments may appear at one view
The air during the whole time sine we crossed the tropick & indeed sometime before has been nearly of the same temperature throughout the 24 hours the Thermometer seldom rising above a degree during the time the sun is above the horizon the windows of the cabbin have been open without once being shut ever since we left Madeira
26. Last night & today the weather has been squally wind rather fresh but keeping very much to the Southward great plenty of flying fish have been about the ship few or none of which have been seen since we left the N.E. trade
27. Fine weather but Wind rather too much to the Southward we are today nearly