Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0190
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[Page 190]
To Cape Horn
the midshipman at the mast head declard for half an hour which time he had steadily lookd at it it did not alter its appearance at all however about 4 we were convincd that we were in chace of Cape fly away as the seamen call it no signs of Island or any thing else appearing where it ought to have been
This Evening many large bunches of sea weed came by the ship we caught some of it with hooks it was of an immense size every leaf 4 feet long & the stalk about twelve the footstalk of each leaf was swelld into a long air vessel Mr Gore tells me that he has seen this weed grow quite to the top of the water in 12 fathom if so the swelld footstalks are probably the trumpet grass or weed of the Cape of good hope we describd it however as it appeard & calld it Fucus Giganteus here were also this Evening large quantities of a small bird somewhat like Mother Careys chickens but rather larger & grey on the back & plenty of Albatrosses indeed we have seen more or less of them every day for some time.
4. Blew fresh today & night the officer of the watch told me that in the night the sea