Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 11 May 1769 (Series 03.258)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Otahite' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
11 May 1769 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3006 / 301 |
| Transcript: |
11. Cocoa nuts were brought down so plentifully this morn that by ½ past 6 I had bought 350: this made it nescessary to drop the price of them least so many being brought at once we should exhaust the countrey and want hereafter; notwistanding I had before night bought more than a thousand at the rates of 6 for an amber coulourd bead, 10 for a white one, and 20 for a fortypenny nail. |
