9 March 1771

Joseph Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 9 March 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

9 March 1771 9. Struck soundings today on the Cape Bank, the Water on it appeard thick and muddy; many Birds especialy Gannetts were seen about the ship. In the Night especialy the fore part of it a very heavy dew fell. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) 540, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17710309.html