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26 December 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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26. Blows fresh today. A vast many birds are about the ship cheifly procellarias, all that we shot last week and one more who is quite Black without spot or speck that can be seen as he flies. [63] Towards even many beds of seaweed came past the ship which the seamen call rockweek, but none near enough to the ship for us to catch them tho we were constantly prepard.
Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: rockweed, sighted
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 135, 2004
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