Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 24 February 1770 (Series 03.548)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'along the shore'; 'Cape Saunders' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
24 February 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 154
CY 3010 / 155 |
| Transcript: |
24. Fresh breeze of wind and fair so we went along shore briskly but kept so far off from it that no observations could be made: we can only say that we did not see any fires, other signs of people we could not have seen by reason of our distance had they been ever so numerous or conspicuous. In the evening the land ahead inclind a good deal to the West. We were now on board of two parties, one who wishd that the land in sight might, the other that it might not be a continent: myself have always been most firm for the former, tho sorry I am to say that in the ship my party is so small that I firmly beleive that there are no more heartily of it than myself and one poor midshipman, the rest begin to sigh for roast beef. |
