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9 December 1768
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James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia
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Sydney Parkinson's Journal
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9. very heavy swell last night and this morn: we Judge that it has blown very hard to the Southward and in this particular think ourselves obligd to the viceroy of Brasil who by his dilatoryness in supplying us kept us out of it, the swell however carried away our fore top galant mast. The sea is today coulord with infin[it]e small Particles the same as those seen Novr 7th and laying like them in broad streaks. [60]
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 131, 2004
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