26 December 1768

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 26 December 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

26 December 1768 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 Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 135, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17681226.html