Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 21 November 1768 (Series 03.087)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Rio de Janeiro' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
21 November 1768 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 124
CY 3006 / 125 |
| Transcript: |
21. Letters came from the Viceroy to both the Captn and myself, in which he told me very politely that it is not in his power to permit to go ashore; in the captns he raises some doubts of our ship being a Kings ship, so I who could ground my pretensions to going ashore on no other Foundation thought it best to drop them, hoping that by and by when things were more quiet I might have an opportunity of smugling myself ashore. |
