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8 January 1769
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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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1769
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8. Smooth water and fair wind: many Seals and Penguins about the ship, the latter leaping out of the water and diving instantly so that a person unusd to them might easily be deceivd and take them for fish; plenty also of Albatrosses and whales blowing very near the ship. We were now too sure that we had missd Fauklands Islands and probably were to the Westward of them.
The ship has been observd to go much better since her shaking in the last gale of wind, the seamen say that it is a general observation that ships go better for being what they call Loosnen in their Joints, so much so that in chase it is often customary to knock down Stantions &c. and make the ship as loose as possible.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 146, 2004
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