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3 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 |
| Saturday | 3 | SW & West | S 68° 45' | 44 | 44° 9' | 10° 20' | Lizd N 291/2° E Dist. 138 leagues |
First part Little wind and hazey with rain, remainder Strong gales with hard squalls which brought us under our close reefed top sails and obliged us to strike topgallant yards. At 8 AM wore ship and stood to the Southward.
Artefacts: reef (nautical term) | topsails
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