Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 17 April 1770 (Series 03.601)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'Towards New South Wales' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
17 April 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 240 |
| Transcript: |
17. During last night and this morn the weather was most Variable with continual squalls and wind shifting all round the compass; such weather is often met with in the neighbourhood of land so that with this and the former signs our seamen began to prophesy that we were not now at any great distance from it. A Gannet was seen which flew towards the NW with a steady uninterrupted flight as if he knew the road that he was going led to the shore. In the evening a Port Egmont hen was seen. At night it blew strong at WSW. |
