Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0244
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calld Dromedaries head not remarkably high had been seen at the dist of 25 L'gs & judgd by nobody to be more than 6 or 8 from us it was now in sight plain & our distance from it by the ships run was 23 l'gs, yet the Sea men acknowledg'd that tho they knew how far it was from them they could not think that it appeard more than 10 l'gs off the hill like a pigeon house was also seen at a very great distance the little dome on the top of it was first thought to be a rock standing up in the sea long before any other part was seen & when we came up with it we found it to be many several miles inland.
23. Calm today myself in small boat but saw few or no birds took with the dipping net. Cancer Erythropthalmus Medusa radiata pelagica dagysa gemma strumosa cornuta Holothuria obtusata Phyllodoce Velella & Mimus volutator the ship was too far from the shore to see much of it a larger fire was however seen than any we have seen before
The Master today in conversation made a remark on the Variation of the Needle which struck me much as to me it was new & appeard to throw much light on the Theory of that Phænomenon the Variation