Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 25 August 1769 (Series 03.365)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Standing to the Southward' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
25 August 1769 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 5
CY 3010 / 6 |
| Transcript: |
25. Less wind today but the swell occasiond by yesterdays wind still troublesome. Birds today about the ship Pintado, Common and Southern Albatross and a shearwater in size and shape like the common, but grey or whitish on the head and back. It was this day a twelvemonth since we left England, in consequence of which a peice of cheshire cheese was taken from a locker where it had been reservd for this occasion and a cask of Porter tappd which provd excellently good, so that we livd like English men and drank the hea[l]ths of our freinds in England. |
