Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 3 January 1770 (Series 03.496)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'of Cape Maria Van Diemen'; 'West Coast' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
3 January 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 117
CY 3010 /118 |
| Transcript: |
3. Stood in for the land with weather more moderate than it has been for some days past: it appeard high but the sides of the hills often interspersd with long tracts of sand even high up, their bottoms were every where coverd with it. Many Albatrosses were about the ship today swimming upon the water in small companies 10 or 20 together. |
