Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0243
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[Page 243]
Standing to the Westward
March 1768 [9]
better to be understood from the drawing than any description I can give suffice it therefore to say that the whole progeny 15 or 20 in number hung in a chain from one end of the mother the oldest only or the largest adhering to her & the rest to each other
While in the boat among a large quantity of birds I had killd 69 in all caught 2 Hippoboscas forest flies both of one species different from any described more than probably these belong'd to the birds & came off with them from the land I found also this day a large Sepia cuttle fish laying on the water just dead but so pulld to peices by the birds that his Species could not be determind only this I know that of him was made one of the best soups I ever eat he was very large differd from the Europaeans in that his arms instead of being (like them) furnishd with suckers were armd with a double row of very sharp talons resembling in shape those of a cat and like them retractable into a sheath of skin from whence they might be thrust at pleasure
The weather is now become pleasanly warm & the Barnacles upon the ships bottom seemd to be regenerate very few only of the old ones remaining alive but young ones without