27 February 1771

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 27 February 1771 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 1771 Index Search Contact us Search for in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine

27 February 1771 27. At 4 this morn we were taken aback by a strong breeze of wind at SW, not without some danger as our people yet only recovering from their late Illnesses had scarce strengh to get the ship before the wind. All morn it blew fresh from the same point but at night veerd round to South. Many Albatrosses and sheerwaters were about the ship all day. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) 537, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17710227.html