Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0369
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Some account of New Holland
insert one as it is not unentertaining a Seaman who had been out on duty on his return declard that he had seen an animal about the size of & much like a one gallon cagg it was says he as black as the Devil & had wings indeed I took it for the Devil or I might easily have catchd it for it crauld
[Margin note] the Devil a Bat
very slowly through the grass. after taking some pains I found out that the animal he had seen was no other than the Large Bat
[Margin note] Birds
Birds there were Several Species of sea fowl Gulls, Shaggs, Soland geese or Gannets of 2 sorts Bobies, &c. & Pelicans of an enormous size but these last tho we saw many thousands of them were so shy that we never got one of them
[Margin note] Cranes
as were the Cranes also of which we saw several very Large & some beautifull species. in the Rivers were ducks who flew in large flocks but were very hard to come at & on the Beach were curlews of several sorts some very like our English ones & Many small Beach Birds the Land Birds were crows very like if not quite the same as our English ones Parrots & Paraquets most Beautifull,