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26 December 1768
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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 | Courses | Distce in Miles | Latd in South | Longd in W: from Greenwich | Bearing At Noon |
| Monday | 26 | North | SW | 158 | 4°..19' | 5° 30' |
A Fresh breeze of Wind and Clowdy weather; pass'd by some rockweed. At noon the Observed Latitude 26 Miles to the Southward of the Logg - which I believe is chiefly owing to her being generally steerd to the Southward of her Course, yesterday being Christmas day the people were none of the Soberest
Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: rockweed, sighted
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