On this day ...
25 December 1768
Endeavour Voyage Maps
James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia
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Sydney Parkinson's Journal
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1768
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25. Christmas day; all good Christians that is to say all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 134, 2004
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