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24 December 1769
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James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia
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Sydney Parkinson's Journal
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24. Land in sight, an Island or rather several small ones most probably 3 Kings, so that it was conjecturd that we had Passd the Cape which had so long troubled us. Calm most of the Day: myself in a boat shooting in which I had good success, killing cheifly several Gannets or Solan Geese so like Europaean ones that they are hardly distinguishable from them. As it was the humour of the ship to keep Christmas in the old fashiond way it was resolvd of them to make a Goose pye for tomorrows dinner.
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© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) 112, 2004
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