Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0241
Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 241]
237.
April 1770 Point Hickes
18. Stiff gales & a heavy sea from the Westward in the morn a Port Egmont hen & a Pintado bird were seen at noon two more of the former at night the weather became rather more moderate & a shoal of Porpoises were about the Ship which leapd out of the water like Salmons often throwing their whole bodies several feet high above the water surface
19. With the first day light this morn the Land was seen at 10, it was pretty plainly to be observd; it made in in sloping hills, coverd in Part with trees or bushes, but interspersd with large tracts of sand. at Noon the land much the same we were now sailing along shore 5 or 6 Leagues from it with a brisk breeze of wind & cloudy unsettled weather when we were calld upon deck to see three water spouts which at the same time made their appearance in different places but all between us & the land two which were very distant soon disapeard but the third which was about a League from us lasted full a quarter of an hour it was a Column which appeard to be of about the thickness of a mast or a midling tree & reachd down from a smoak colourd cloud about two thirds of the way to the surface of the Sea under it the sea appeard to be much troubled for a considerable space &