Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 7 February 1770 (Series 03.531)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Passing Cooks Streights' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
7 February 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 145
CY 3010 / 146 |
| Transcript: |
7. Sensible again of the Violence of the tides here which past us in great ripples, even in the middle of the streights, tho they were judgd to be 5 leagues over in the narrowest part. A large hill was seen with much snow upon it on the SW side: at noon we were almost abreast of it and clear of the streights, it provd to be so far inland that we could hardly trace its outline so probably it is very high indeed. The land between us and it was flat for a large extent but seemd barren and swampy Land, after this barren and sandy and rounded away fast to the Southward; a small smoak upon it in the Even was the only sign of inhabitants that we saw. |
