Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 19 May 1770 (Series 03.633)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'New South Wales' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
19 May 1770 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 269 |
| Transcript: |
19. Countrey as sandy and barren as ever. Two snakes were seen, a man of war bird, and a small Turtle. At sun set the land appeard in a low bank to the sea over which nothing was seen, so that we imagind it was very narrow and that some deep bay on the other side ran behind it. |
