8 July 1769

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 8 July 1769 • Transcript of Cook's Journal Sydney Parkinson's Journal The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth Other Accounts ... Endeavour Voyage Maps 1769 Annotations Index Search Contact us Search for in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine

8 July 1769 8. Our freinds with us as usual, the fort more and more dismantled. Our freinds seem resolvd to stay till we got tho the greatest part of them are absolutely without victuals; we have been for some days obligd to spare them every little assistance that we can and the best of them are most thankfull for a single basket of apples. Notwithstanding this we had 4 small pigs brought today from Oborea and Polotheara. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 296, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17690708.html