13 May 1770

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

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13 May 1770 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. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) 262, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17700513.html