Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0335
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[Page 335]
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July 1770. Endeavours River
26. In botanizing to day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the Opossum (Didelphis) tribe it was a female & with it I took two young ones it was not unlike that remarkable one which De Bufon has decribd by the name of Phalanger as an american animal it was however not the same for De Buffon is certainly wrong in asserting that this tribe is peculiar to america & in all probability as Pallas has said in his Zoologia the Phalanger itself is a native of the East Indies as my animal & that agree in the extrordinary conformation of their feet in which particular they differ from all the others
27. This day was dedicated to hunting the wild animal in which we saw several & had the good fortune to kill a very large one which weighd 84 lb [Margin note] 84.
28. Botanizing with no kind of success the Plants were now intirely compleated & nothing new to be found so that sailing is all we wish for if the wind would but allow us. Dind today upon the animal who eat but ill he was I suppose too old his fault however was an uncommon one. the total want of flavour for
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