Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0354
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Temple Bay
was the Tubipora musica I have often lamented that we had not time to make proper observations upon this curious tribe of animals but we were so intirely taken up with the more conspicuous links of the chain of creation as fish Plants, Birds &c &c. that it was impossible
18. Weighd & stood along shore with a gentle breeze, the main still 7 or 8 Leagues from us in the even many shoals were ahead we were however fortunate enough to find our way through them & at night anchord under an Island the tide here ran immensely strong which we lookd upon as a good omen as so strong a stream must in all probability have an outlet by which we could get out either on the South or North side of New Guinea the smoothness of the water however plainly indicated that the reef continued between us & the Ocean
19. Weighd anchor and steerd as yesterday with a fresh trade wind all morn were much entangled with Shoals but so much do great dangers swallow up Lesser ones that these once so much dreaded shoals were now look at with much less concern