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4 October 1768
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James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia
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Sydney Parkinson's Journal
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1768
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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]
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 43, 2004
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