Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 11 May 1770 (Series 03.625)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'New South Wales' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
11 May 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 265
CY 3010 / 266 |
| Transcript: |
11. Fair wind continued. Land today trended rather more to the Northward than it had lately done, look'd broken and likely for inlets. At Sunset three remarkable hills were abreast the ship standing near the shore, of nearly equal size and shape; behind them the countrey rose in gradual slopes carrying a great shew of fertility. |
