13 August 1770

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 13 August 1770 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 1770 Index Search Contact us Search for in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine

13 August 1770 13. Ship stood out for the opening we had seen in the reef and about 2 O'Clock passd it. It was about _ a mile wide. As soon as the ship was well without it we had no ground with100 fathm of Line so became in an instant quite easy, being once more in the main Ocean and consequently freed from all our fears of shoals &c. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) *239, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17700813.html