12 August 1769

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 12 August 1769 Endeavour Voyage Maps James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia Transcript of Cook's Journal Sydney Parkinson's Journal The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth 1769 Annotations Index Search Contact us Search for in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine

12 August 1769 12. Get rid of sea sickness today. Tupias Island not in sight, he tells us that it is et'pa (we are past it) for the same word is usd by them for the setting of the sun and the leaving behind of an Island. He says however that tomorrow or next day we shall see another which he calls Oheter'a. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.1) 325, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17690812.html