Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0636
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To the Cape of Good Hope
Some tropick birds & Gannets (Pelecanus risc) were seen
18. In the Morn Rain with light breezes Several Man of war birds & some shearwaters were about the ship
19. Light breezes all day. a ship in sight but too far off to distinguish her colours.
20. Weather as usual 2 ships in sight who shew'd us dutch Colours & then saild ahead of us letting us know that sure as our ship might be she was too slow to outsail even a dutchman. Several tropick birds were seen. in the Even the wind came foul.
Myself who had began with the Bark Yesterday miss'd my fever today. the people however in general grew worse & many had now the dysentery or bloody flux.
21. the Wind remaind as it was but one of the duchmen had so far outsaild us as to be intirely out of sight the other however was not so much ahead but that we sometimes flatterd ourselves with thinking that we could sail as fast as her. Some few Gannets, & porpoises were about the ship
22. Our freind the slow Dutchman was this morn out of sight: the wind still foul. almost all