Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0173
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Some account of New Zealand
resemble any fish that I at least have before seen our seamen contrivd to give names to so that hakes breams Cole fish &c. were appellations familiar with us & I must say that those who bear these names in England need not be ashamd of their namsakes in this countrey but above all the luxuries we met with the lobsters or sea crawfish must not be forgot which are possibly the same that in Lord Ansons Voyage are mentiond to be found at the Island of Juan Fernandes they are large tho not quite so large as those at Juan fernandes & differ from ours in England in having many more prickles on their backes & being red when taken out of the water of them we bought great quantities of the natives every where to the Northward who catch them by diving near the shore feeling first with their feet till they find out where they lie We had also that fish describd by Frezier in his voyage to Spanish South America by the name of Elefant, Pejegallo, or Poisson Coq which tho coarse we made shift to Eat several species of Skates or sting rays which were abominably coarse but to make amends for that we had among several sorts of dog fish one that was spotted with a few white spots whose flavour was similar to