24 March 1770

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

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24 March 1770 24. Just turnd the Westernmost point and stood into the mouth of the streights intending to anchor in the first harbour we could find when an Easterly wind met us right in the teeth, to our no small dissatisfaction as I beleive there has been no other part of the time since we have left Cape Turnagain the first time when such a wind would have been disagreable. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) 158, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17700324.html