Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0234
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Off Cape Horn
never been moderate enough to give us an opportunity of getting out a boat to shoot any of them
25. Wind today Northwest stood in with some Islands which were large we could not tell for certain whether we saw any part of the main the little Island mentiond yesterday was in view & beyond that the land made in a bluf head within which another appeard tho but faintly which was farther to the Southward possibly that might be Cape Horn but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it hinderd our making any material observations upon it so all we can say is that it was the Southermost land that we saw & does not ill answer to the description of Cape Horn given by the French who place it upon an Island & say that it is composd of two bluff headlands v. Navigat aux terres australes tom 1. pag. 356
26. Weather vastly moderate today wind foul so we were sorry that we had ran away from the land last night
27. Wind came to the northward & we got some