20 December 1768

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 20 December 1768 Endeavour Voyage Maps James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia Transcript of Cook's Journal Sydney Parkinson's Journal The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth 1768 Annotations Index Search Contact us Search for in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine

20 December 1768 20. Fair wind today and rather warmer than it has been. During the course of last night we had a very heavy squall which tho it did not last above 10 minutes yet in that time blew as hard as it has done since we have been on board the ship. Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: Squalls Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 132, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17681220.html