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 VIII - SOUTH SEA ISLANDS TO NEW ZEALAND (THAMES RIVER)
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
16th August 1769. Early this morning we were told that land was in sight. It proved to be a cloud, but at first sight was so like land that it deceived every man in the ship; even Tupia gave it a name.
17th. A heavy swell from the south-west all day, so we are not yet under the lee of the continent. Our taros (roots like a yam, called in the West Indies cocos) failed us to-day; many of them were rotten. They would probably have kept longer had we had either time or opportunity of drying them well, but I believe that at the best they are very much inferior to either yams or potatoes for keeping.
24th. The morning was calm. About nine it began to blow fresh with rain, which came on without the least warning; at the same time a waterspout was seen to leeward. It appeared to me so inconsiderable, that had it not been pointed out to me, I should not have particularly noticed the appearance. It resembled a line of thick mist, as thick as a middling-sized tree, which reached, not in a straight line, almost to the water's edge, and in a few minutes totally disappeared. Its distance, I suppose, made it appear so trifling, as the seamen judged it to be not less than two or three miles from us.
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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. 179 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1896