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[1802 July Friday - 30th. H.M.S.Investigator]
along the east coast Herveys Bay
[Astronomical observations not reproduced - see original journal]

The bank which lies WNW. from the end of the spit did not come within the notice of C.C. [Captain Cook] or of the Norfolk. I judge it to be a continuation of the spit, which curves round to the westward. The water was not at all discoloured upon it, as it is on the shoal water of the spit. -
    Many birds of the pelican species have frequented the ship during the last few days. One was caught in the rigging, and appears to be the kind of bird which C.C. [Captain Cook] calls a boobys; though it is a somewhat different in colour to what I have heard so called bird to the bird which I have heard so called, in Torres Strait; the difference seeming to consist principally in the colour.