Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 14 March 1770 (Series 03.566)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Duskey Harbour'; 'along the shore' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
14 March 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 159
CY 3010 / 160 |
| Transcript: |
14. Stood along shore with a fair breeze and passed 3 or 4 places that had much the appearance of harbours, much to my regret who wishd to examine the mineral appearances from which I had formd great hopes. The countrey rose immediately from the sea side in steep hills which however were tolerably coverd with wood; behind these were another ridge of hills coverd in many places with snow, which from its pure whiteness and smoothness in the morn and the many cracks and intervals that appeard among it at night we conjecturd to be newly falln. |
