Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0196
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[Page 196]
To Cape Horn
12. This morn make the land again soon after which it dropd calm in which time we took Beroe incrassata Medusa limpidissima & plicata & obliquata Alcyonium anguillare probably the thing that Shelvocke mentions in his Voyage round the world page 60 Alcyonium frustrum after dinner a small breeze sprung up & to our great Joy we discoverd an opening into the land & stood in for it in great hopes of finding a harbour however after having ran within a mile of the shore were obliged to stand off again as there was no appearance of shelter & the wind was on shore.
When we were nearest in we could plainly discover with our glasses spots in which the colour of white & yellow were predominant which we judg'd to be flowers the white were in large clusters almost every where the yellow in small spots or patches on the side of a hill coverd with a beautifull verdure the trees could now be distinguishd very plainly & seemd to be 30 or 40 feet high with flat bushy tops their trunks in many places were bare & resembled rocks a good deal till the glasses cleard up the deception.