Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 16 March 1770 (Series 03.568)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'along the shore'; 'Cascade cape' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
16 March 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 160
CY 3010 / 161 |
| Transcript: |
16. Much snow on the ridges of the high hills, two were however seen on which was little or none: whatever the cause of it might be I could not guess, they were quite bare of trees or any kind of Vegetables and seemd to consist of a mouldering soft stone of the colour of Brick or light red ocre. About noon the countrey near the sea changd much for the better, appearing in broad Valleys clothd with prodigious fine woods out of which came many fine streams of water, but notwithstanding the fineness of the countrey there was not the smallest signs of inhabitants, nor indeed have we seen any since we made this land except the fire on the 4th. |
