Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 17 August 1769 (Series 03.357)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Standing to the Southward' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
17 August 1769 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 4 |
| Transcript: |
17. A heavy swell from the SW all day so we are not yet under the Lee of the continent: in the Even no wind. Our Taros (roots of the Yam kind calld in the W. Indies Cocos) faild us today, many of them were rotten; they would probably have kept longer had we had either time or opportunity of drying them well, but I beleive that at the best they are very much inferior to either Yamms or potatoes for keeping. |
