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30 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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30. Carpenters employd today in repairing the long boat which is eat in a most wonderfull manner, every part of her bottom is like a honeycomb and some of the holes 1/8th of an inch in diameter, such a progress has this destructive insect made in six weeks.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 259, 2004
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