26 August 1768

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 26 August 1768 Endeavour Voyage Maps James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia Transcript of Cook's Journal Sydney Parkinson's Journal The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth 1768 Annotations Index Search Contact us Search for in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine

26 August 1768 26. Wind still fair, but very light breezes; saw this Even a shoal of those fish which are particularly calld Porpoises by the seamen, probably the Delphinus Phocaena of Linnaeus, as their noses are very blunt. Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: porpoise Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 1, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17680826.html