Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 27 October 1768 (Series 03.061)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'to Brasil' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
27 October 1768 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 82
CY 3006 / 96 |
| Transcript: |
27. Fine weather but Wind rather too much to the Southward. We are today nearly in the latitude of the Island of Fernand de Norhona, so that I am not without hopes of making it if rightly laid down; night however put an end to our hopes for the present at least, and left us in no very agreable situation as shoals and foul ground is laid down all round the Islands. |
