27 January 1769

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 27 January 1769 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 1769 Annotations Index Search Contact us Search for in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine

27 January 1769 27. Wind came to the northward and we got some little westing, possibly today we were to the westward of the cape, at least a great swell from the NWt makes it certain that we were to the Southward of it. Many large albatrosses d. exulans were about the ship whose backs were very white; at noon a shag Pelecanus antarcticus came on board the ship and was taken. [25] Soon after dinner saw an Island to the northward possibly Diego Ramires. [26] Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 178, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17690127.html