Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 5 March 1769 (Series 03.190)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Standing to the Westward' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
5 March 1769 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 238 |
| Transcript: |
5. Fine weather but foul wind, it now begins to be very hot. Therm. 70 and damp, with prodigious dews at night greater than any I have felt, this renews our uncomfortably damp situation, every thing beginning to mould as it did about the aequinoctial line in the Atlantick. |