Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0194
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To Cape Horn
& at the same time so easy.
8. Smooth water & fair wind many Seals & Penguins about the ship the latter leaping out of the water & diving instantly so that a person unusd to them might easily be deceivd & take them for fish plenty also of Albatrosses & whales blowing very near the ship we were now too sure that we had missd Fauklands [Falkland] Islands & probably were to the Westward of them.
The ship is has been observd to go much better since her shaking in the last gale of wind the seamen say that it is a general observation that ships go better for being what they call Loosnen in their Joints so much so that in chase it is often customary to knock down Stantions &c. & make the ship as loose as possible.
9. Clouds to the westward appear so like land this morn that even our first Lieutenant who prided himself on His Judgement in this particular was deceivd wind vereable & calmer many seals & some Albatrosses but none of those whitish birds which we saw in the gale of wind.
10. Fine weather Seals plentifully today & a kind of birds different from any we have before seen they were black & a little larger than pidgeons plump like them & easily known by their flapping their wings quick as they fly contrary to the custom of sea birds in general this evening a shoal of Porpoises