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2 September 1768
Endeavour Voyage Maps
James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia
Joseph Banks's Journal
Sydney Parkinson's Journal
The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth
1768
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| Week Days | Month Days | Winds | Course | Distce | Latd in | Longd in West from Greenwich | Bearings at Noon |
| Friday | 2 | NBW West SW WSW | SBW | 64 M | 4° 53' | 9° 26' | NNE D. 130 leags |
Fresh gales and clowdy the most part of these 24 hours. PM got up the spare Mainsail to dry, it being wet by the Water geting into the sail room, occasiond by the Ship being very leaky in her upper works. At 5 am loosed 2 Reefs out of each topsail, and saw the land which we judged to be Cape Finister and Cape Ortegal. At 10 Tacked being about 4 Miles off shore and stood to the NW. Loosed all the reefs out and set topgt sails. At Noon, Cape Ortegal bore EBS distant about 8 Leagues.
Concepts: tacking (nautical term)
Artefacts: main sail | reef (nautical term)
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