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13 May 1770
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13. Wind off shore today, it let us however come in with the land. Many porpoises were about the ship. At Noon several fires ashore, one very large which I judgd to be at least a league inland. Innumerable shoals of fish about the ship in the afternoon and some birds of the Nectris kind.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) 262, 2004
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