Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0269
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[Page 269]
South Sea
April 1769
more numerous in the ship than the seers
Today & yesterday many birds have been were about the ship among which a bird which I took to be the common tropick bird Phaeton aethereus was one, he was about the size of our tropick bird but differd from him in having black barrs upon his back & the long feathers in his tail white so much I see but the weather was so uncertain that I could not go out to shoot one
Calm this even. at sunset Georges Land appeard plain tho we had not neard it much since the clouds went from the tops of the hills it appeard less high than it did tho it certainly is very high
As I am now on the brink of going ashore after a long passage thank god in as good health as man can be I shall fill a little paper in describing the means which I have taken to prevent the scurvy in particular
The ship was supplyd by the Admiralty with Sower crout which I eat of constantly till our salted Cabbage was opend which I preferd as a pleasant substitute wort was servd out almost constantly of this I drank from