Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0179
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To Cape Horn
Decr 1768
do it but never before saw anything like it before after we got it a (This circumstance which by mistake is attributed to this shark belongs to one taken the 11th)
9. A very heavy swell last night & this morn we Judge that it has blown very hard to the Southward & in this particular think ourselves obligd to the viceroy of Brasil who by his dilatoryness in supplying us kept us out of it the swell however carried away our fore top galant mast The sea is today coulord with infine small Particles the same as those seen Novr 7th & laying like them in broad streaks
10. Today also we see large quantities of the same small particles
11. This morn took a shark who cast up his stomack when hookd or at least appears so to do it proves to be a female & on being opend 6 young ones were taken out of her five of which were alive & swam briskly in a tub of water the 6th was dead & seemd to have been so for some time
12. Wind fair today no events