Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0244
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number scarce bigger than Lentils
4. Fine weather the ship goes 5 knotts without rowling or pitching which she has not done this great while this we attribute to the empty water cask in the fore hold having been filld with salt water yesterday
There were several bonitos about the ship or at least fish something like them
5. Fine weather but foul wind the weather it now begins to be very hot Therm. 70 & damp with prodigious dews at night greater than any I have felt this renews our uncomfortably damp situation every thing beginning to mould as it did about the aequinoctial line in the Atlantick [Atlantic]
6. Weather wind & heat continued dew to night as strong as ever
7. Wind weather heat & dew as yesterday no Albatrosses have been seen since the 4th, and for some days before that we had only now & then a single one in sight so conclude we have parted with them for good & all
8. Rains today with uncommonly large and heavy drops accompanied with calms & small puffs of wind all round the Compass in the Evening a SE. wind took the ship aback & before night blew brisk
9. Fine weather wind right aft a tropick bird was seen by some of the people but myself did not see him