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27 May 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. This day Mr Monkhouse went to Eparre with Tubourai and Tamio. Market tolerable. Mr Hicks in his return from Dootahah brought word that if the Captn would go over the 4 piggs would be given to him: this producd a resolution of going tomorrow, tho we none of us much credited his promise, yet we would leave no stone unturnd to keep him in good humour. I omitted to mention on the 25th that the longboat being very leaky was hauld dry and her bottom found to be eat intirely through by the worm, which surprizes us much as the Dolphins boats met with no such inconvenience: her bottom was payd with brimstone and tallow. The pinnace which has been in the water as long as her is totaly untouchd which we atribute to hers being painted with white lead and oil.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 255, 2004
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