On this day ...
9 October 1768
Endeavour Voyage Maps
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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9. This morn a shark calld us out of our bedds, and was soon hookd, but as soon broke his hold and went off: at noon went out in the boat but found nothing on the surface of the water; on returning home however found on the sterm of the ship two new species of Lepas vittata and midas, they were both sticking to the bottom in company with the anatifera, of which there was great abundance. [18] After dinner calld upon deck by another shark, who had been lately wounded by a harpoon, but he was two cunning after his misfortune to bite at our baits, which we much Lamented as he had sucking fish upon him that were quite white, probably a species not yet describd.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 47, 2004
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