28 September 1768

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 28 September 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

28 September 1768 28. Wind rather slackend; three birds were today about the ship, a swallow, to all appearance the same as our European one, and two motacillas, [8] about night fall one of the latter was taken; about 11 a shoal of Porpoises came about the ship, and the fisgig was soon thrown into one of them but would not hold. [9] Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 37, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17680928.html