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28 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 |
| Wednesday | 28 | SE to South | 4°..49' | 5°..29' |
First part St[r]ong gales and clowdy which obliged us to get down Topgt yards —
at 8 PM it blew a Storm of wind with rain which brought us under our Mainsail with her head to the westward, sounded and 50 fm fine brown sand at midnight had 40 fm the same bottom, and 4 AM had 46 fm Coral rock, the weather being more moderate made sail under the Courses, and at 9 set the Topsails with two reefs in —
Artefacts: main sail
Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: coral reefs
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