Endeavour journal, 24 December 1769 (Series 03.486)

Notes:	Page header reads: 'Island of 3 Kings'; 'of Cape Maria Van Diemen'
Author:	Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
Date:	24 December 1769
Series title:	Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771
Frame numbers:	CY 3010 / 115 CY 3010 / 116
Transcript:	24. Land in sight, an Island or rather several small ones most probably 3 Kings, so that it was conjecturd that we had Passd the Cape which had so long troubled us. Calm most of the Day: myself in a boat shooting in which I had good success, killing cheifly several Gannets or Solan Geese so like Europaean ones that they are hardly distinguishable from them. As it was the humour of the ship to keep Christmas in the old fashiond way it was resolvd of them to make a Goose pye for tomorrows dinner.

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