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27 January 1769
Endeavour Voyage Maps
James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia
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Sydney Parkinson's Journal
The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth
1769
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27. Wind came to the northward and we got some little westing, possibly today we were to the westward of the cape, at least a great swell from the NWt makes it certain that we were to the Southward of it. Many large albatrosses d. exulans were about the ship whose backs were very white; at noon a shag Pelecanus antarcticus came on board the ship and was taken. [25] Soon after dinner saw an Island to the northward possibly Diego Ramires. [26]
Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans)
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 178, 2004
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