Section 2 - The first Pacific voyage of James Cook
Endeavour journal, 5 January 1771 (Series 03.810)
| Notes: |
Page header reads: 'at Princes Island' |
| Author: |
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 |
| Date: |
5 January 1771 |
| Series title: |
Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 |
| Frame numbers: |
CY 3010 / 616 |
| Transcript: |
5. Ashore today trading; the Indians dropd their demands very slowly but were very civil, towards noon however they came down to the offerd price, so that before night we had bought up a large quantity of Turtle. In the Evening I went to pay my respects to his majesty the king, who I found at his house in the middle of a rice feild cooking his own supper; he receivd me however very politely. |
