Cape Horn to Tahiti
A fresh Trade wind and fine pleasant weather. At Noon saw a Large
flock of Birds; they had brown backs and white Bellies. They fly and
make a noise like Stearings, and are shaped like them, only something larger.
Saw likewise some black Sheerwaters and Several Man-of-War birds. Wind
East; course North 86 degrees 30 minutes West; distance 118 miles; latitude
19 degrees 0 minutes South, longitude 135 degrees 33 minutes West.
Joseph
Banks Journal
Many birds today about noon passd by the ship making a noise
something like gulls, they were black upon the back and white under the belly
probably of the sterna kind; in company with them were 20 or 30 Men of war
birds soaring over the flock, probably the whole were in pursuit of a shoal of
fish.
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