Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0238
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Standing to the Westward
in the cloaths that hang overboard to tow.
I had been unwell these three or four days & today was obligd to keep the Cabbin with a bilious attack which tho quite slight at present alarmd me a good deal as Captn Wallis had in the Streights of Magellan such an attack which he never got the better of throughout the whole voyage
5. All but calm today myself a little better than yesterday well enough to eat part of the Albatrosses shot yesterday on the third which were so good that every body commended & Eat heartily of them tho there was fresh pork upon the table the way of dressing them is thus Skin them over night & soak their carcases in Salt water till morn then parboil them & throw away the water then stew them well with very little water & when sufficiently tender serve them up with Savoury sauce
6. Foul wind myself something better
7. Myself better again in the evening ship made a little westing
8. Fair wind blew fresh
9. Blew fresh all last night which has given us a good deal of westing. This morn some sea weed floated past the ship and my servant declares that he saw a large beetle fly over her: I do not beleive he would deceive me and he certainly knows what a beetle is, as he has these 3 years been often employd in taking them for me.
10. During all last night the ship has pitchd very much so that there has been no sleeping for land men. Today misty with little wind.
11. Fair wind, stand to the westward.
12. Foul wind, but prodigious fine weather and smooth water makes amends to us at least.
13. Wind still Foul and blew fresh, at night a little mended.
14. Wind South, water soon became smooth, at night little wind.
15. Calm this morn: went in the boat and killd Procellaria velox, Nectris munda and fuliginosa, which two last are a new genus between Procellaria and Diomedea: this we reckon a great acquisition to our bird collection. My stay out today