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29 March 1769
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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1769
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29. Calm again. Bent a new shark line in the even a shark alongside took the bait but broke the new line just as we were going to hoist him in, I am told by the people that common fishing line will never last above a year if ever so much care is taken of it.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 198, 2004
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