Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0050
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off Cape Turnagain
swam fast along they continualy plungd themselves under water & soon after rose again in another place so that the whole flock vanishd sometimes at others a large part of it & rose again often where you did not expect them & in less than a minutes time they were down again & so alternately as long as we saw them
before dinner we were abreast of another cape which made in a bluff rock the upper part of a reddish coulourd stone or clay the lower white beyond this the Countrey appeard pleasant with little smooth hills like downs the Captn thought it not nescessary to proceed any farther on this side of the coast so the ships head was again turnd to the northward & the cape from thence call Cape Turnagain.
at night we were off Hawks bay & saw two monstrous fires inland on the hills we are now inclind to think that these & most if not all the great smoaks & fires that we have seen are made for the convenience of clearing land for tillage but for whatever purposes intended they are a certain indication that where they are