Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 18 October 1768 (Series 03.052)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'to Brasil' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
18 October 1768 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 73
CY 3006 / 74 |
| Transcript: |
18. Wind continued to blow fresh so we had little doubt of the reality of yesterdays hopes. This evening trying as I have often (foolishly no doubt) done to exercise myself by playing tricks with two ropes in the Cabbin I got a fall which hurt me a good deal and alarmd me more, as the blow was on my head, and two hours after it I was taken with sickness at my stomack which made me fear some ill consequence. |