29 December 1768

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 29 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

29 December 1768 29. Fair wind, water very white, sounded 46 fathom, about 4 in the Even 44. We observd now some feathers and peices of reed to float by the ship which made us get up the hoave net to see what they were; soon after some drowned Carabi and Phalaenae came past which we took and employd the hoave till dark night taking many specimens. [64] Lat. 41:48. This morn a large sphinx        came off probably from the land and was taken. Concepts: Sounding (nautical term) Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 136, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17681229.html