Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0172
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Some account of New Zealand
ashore troublesome, or to give occasion for using shades for the face which we had brough out to defend ourselves from them
For this scarcity of animals on the land the Sea however makes abundant recompense every creek & corner produces abundance of fish not only wholesome but at least as well tasted as our fish in Europe the ship seldom anchord in or indeed passd over (in light winds) any place whose bottom was such as fish resort to in general but as many were caught with hook & line as the people could eat especialy to the Southward where when we lay at an anchor the boats by fishing with hook & line very near the rocks could take any quantity of fish besides that the Seine seldom faild of success insomuch that in both the times that we anchord to the Southward of Cooks streights every Mess in the ship that had prudence enough salted as much fish as lasted them many weeks after they went to sea
For the Sorts, there are Macarel of several sorts kinds one precisely the same as our English ones & another much like our horse macarel besides several more, these come in large immence shoals and are taken by the natives in large Seines from whoom we bought them at very easy rates besides these were many species which tho they did not at all