4 October 1768

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 4 October 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

4 October 1768 4. Today quite calm, I went out in a boat and took dagysa strumosa, medusa porpita, the same which we before calld asurea, mimus volutator, and cimex                  who runns upon the water here in the same manner as C. Lacustris does on our ponds in England. [14] Towards even two small fish were taken under the stern, they were following a shirt which was towing and showd not the least signs of fear, so that they were taken with a landing net without the least difficulty. Balistes monoceros Linn.[15] Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 43, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17681004.html