27 May 1771

Banks's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 27 May 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 May 1771 27. In the night the wind settled at NE and in the morn to our great [surprize] we had no sight of the Fleet even from our mast heads so were obligd to jogg on by ourselves. A bird something like a gannet but darker was seen about the ship which settled upon the water and remaind there till out of sight. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) 597, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/banks/17710527.html