Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0012
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In search of the Southern Continent
16. Weather rather more moderate but still blows fresh myself rather better but still very sick at the stomach which continualy supplys a thin acid liquor which I discharge by vomit birds as yesterday
17. Moderate few birds myself quite well.
18. Moderate this morn several pintados and albatrosses in the evening quite calm.
19. Quite calm today go out in the boat and shoot Procellaria Garlur velox (the small dove of the 31st) vagabunda (the grey backd shearwater of the same day) Passerina (the small mother Careys chicken of the 10th. took with the dipping net Medusa vitrea Phillodoce velella to one specimen of which stuck Lepas anatifera doris complanata Helix violacea Cancer..... Very few birds were to be seen there were however some Albatrosses and a kind of Shearwater quite black which I was not fortunate enough to shoot /a large hollow swell from the South/
20. Uncertain weather Calms and light breezes often succeeding each other few birds about the ship
21. Pleasant breeze some birds about us Albatrosses and black and grey shearwaters
22. Moderate few birds cheifly Albatrosses and Shearwaters Pintados towards night a large flock of Black shearwaters are seen that do not change their place but keep hovering as if some prey was under them two whales were also seen /southerly swell still continued/
23. Moderate today several birds are about the ship cheifly Pintados and Albatrosses in the evening another flock of Black shearwaters passd the ship and soon after two whales were seen