Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0412
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to New Guinea
& that of New Holland but never that I recollect at any considerable distance from the Land in the Evening a small bird of the Noddy (sterna) kind hoverd much about the ship & at night settled on the rigging where he was taken & provd exactly the same bird as Dampier has describd & given a rude figure of under the Name of a Noddy From New Holland See his voyages Vol 111: p: 98 tab. of Birds fig. 5.
28. Still Standing to the Northward the water shoaling regularly Vast quantities of the little substances mentiond yesterday floating upon the water in large lines a mile or more long & 50 or 100 yards wide all swimming either immediately upon the surface of the water or not many inches under it the seamen who are now convinc'd that it was not as they had thought the spawn of fish began to call it Sea sawdust a name certainly not ill adapted to its appearance One of them, a Portugese who came on board the ship at Rio de Janeiro, told me that at St Salvador on the Coast of Brasil where the Portugese have a whale fishery he had