Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 4 January 1770 (Series 03.497)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'West Coast' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
4 January 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 118 |
| Transcript: |
4. Stood rather nearer the land than yesterday but not near enough to see whether or not it was inhabited: indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it was a moot point whether or not we could get out of: indeed I beleive most people thought that we should not till a lucky change in the wind at once allowd us to weather every thing, to our no small Joy who had so lately been in so severe and long a Gale of wind blowing right upon the shore which we had now just weatherd. |
