Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0288
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Cape upstart.
a head land which appeard miserably rocky & barren. Much seaweed with very fine leaves passd by the ship all day
5. Country Land near the sea very low & flat behind which the hills rose in the countrey very little appearance of fertility however either on one or the other at noon one large fire was seen. several Cuttle bones & 2 Sea Snakes swam past the ship. in the Even the Thermometer was at 74 & the air felt to us hotter than we have felt it on the coast before Many Clouds of a thin scum lay floating upon the water the same as we have before seen off Rio de Janeiro. some few flying fish also
6. Land made in Barren rocky capes one in in Particular which we were abreast of in the morn appeard much like Cape Roxent at noon 3 fires upon it Many Cuttle bones Some sea weed & 2 or 3 Sea snakes were seen in the Evening it fell quite calm & I went out in the small Boat & shot nectris nugax but saw nothing remarkable on the water the weather most sultry hot in an open boat