Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF BANKS AND SOLANDER
- NATURALISTS AND VOYAGERS MENTIONED IN THE JOURNAL
- LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE “ENDEAVOUR” AND BANKS'S STAFF
- CHAPTER I ENGLAND TO RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER II RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER III RIO TO TERRA DEL FUEGO
- CHAPTER IV TERRA DEL FUEGO TO OTAHITE
- CHAPTER V OTAHITE
- CHAPTER VI OTAHITE TO OHETEROA
- CHAPTER VII GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
- CHAPTER VIII SOUTH SEA ISLANDS TO NEW ZEALAND (THAMES RIVER)
- CHAPTER IX CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER X GENERAL ACCOUNT OF NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER XI NEW ZEALAND TO AUSTRALIA (ENDEAVOUR RIVER)
- CHAPTER XII AUSTRALIA (ENDEAVOUR RIVER) TO TORRES STRAITS
- CHAPTER XIII SOME ACCOUNT OF THAT PART OF NEW HOLLAND NOW CALLED NEW SOUTH WALES
- CHAPTER XIV AUSTRALIA TO SAVU ISLAND
- CHAPTER XV DESCRIPTION OF SAVU
- CHAPTER XVI SAVU ISLAND TO BATAVIA
- CHAPTER XVII DESCRIPTION OF BATAVIA
- CHAPTER XVIII BATAVIA TO CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
- CHAPTER XIX CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO ENGLAND
- APPENDIX: ELECTRICITY
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER IV - TERRA DEL FUEGO TO OTAHITE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF BANKS AND SOLANDER
- NATURALISTS AND VOYAGERS MENTIONED IN THE JOURNAL
- LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE “ENDEAVOUR” AND BANKS'S STAFF
- CHAPTER I ENGLAND TO RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER II RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER III RIO TO TERRA DEL FUEGO
- CHAPTER IV TERRA DEL FUEGO TO OTAHITE
- CHAPTER V OTAHITE
- CHAPTER VI OTAHITE TO OHETEROA
- CHAPTER VII GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
- CHAPTER VIII SOUTH SEA ISLANDS TO NEW ZEALAND (THAMES RIVER)
- CHAPTER IX CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER X GENERAL ACCOUNT OF NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER XI NEW ZEALAND TO AUSTRALIA (ENDEAVOUR RIVER)
- CHAPTER XII AUSTRALIA (ENDEAVOUR RIVER) TO TORRES STRAITS
- CHAPTER XIII SOME ACCOUNT OF THAT PART OF NEW HOLLAND NOW CALLED NEW SOUTH WALES
- CHAPTER XIV AUSTRALIA TO SAVU ISLAND
- CHAPTER XV DESCRIPTION OF SAVU
- CHAPTER XVI SAVU ISLAND TO BATAVIA
- CHAPTER XVII DESCRIPTION OF BATAVIA
- CHAPTER XVIII BATAVIA TO CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
- CHAPTER XIX CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO ENGLAND
- APPENDIX: ELECTRICITY
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
21st January 1769. Sailed this morning, the wind foul; but our keeping-boxes being full of new plants, we little regarded any wind, provided it was but moderate enough to let the draughtsmen work, who, to do them justice, are now so used to the sea that it must blow a gale of wind before they leave off.
25th. Wind to-day north-west; stood in with some large islands, but we could not tell for certain whether we saw any part of the mainland. At some distance the land formed a bluff head, within which another appeared, though but faintly, farther to the southward. Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making any material observations upon it; so that all we can say is, that it was the southernmost land we saw, and does not answer badly to the description of Cape Horn given by the French, who place it upon an island, and say that it is two bluff headlands (vide Histoire des Navigat. aux terres australes, tom. i. p. 356).
1st February. Killed Diomedea antarctica, Procellaria lugens and turtur. The first, or black-billed albatross, is much like the common one, but differs in being scarcely half as large, and having a bill entirely black. Procellaria lugens, the southern shearwater, differs from the common kind in being smaller and of a darker colour on the back, but is easily distinguished by the flight, which is heavy, and by two fasciæ or streaks of white, which are very conspicuous when it flies, under its wings.
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- Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B., P.R.S.During Captain Cook's First Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768–71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, etc., pp. 62 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1896