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22 March 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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22. Fresh breeze of wind today, the ship layd no better than west so we were forcd to give over our hopes on the NNW point. Many man of war birds were about the ship today and some egg birds, I shot 3 of the first but none of them fell onboard the ship. All today the weather very hot and damp, Thermometer 80, which it never was at sea before except in the calms under the line.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 194, 2004
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