Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 4 September 1769 (Series 03.375)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'in search of the Southern Continent' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
4 September 1769 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 9 |
| Transcript: |
4. Almost calm, few birds as yesterday. In the Evening a light breeze springs up and the sun sets among many dark black clouds edg'd with fiery red, which is lookd upon by some seamen as a sure sign of a gale of wind. |