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8 January 1769
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
1769
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| Week Days | Month Days | Winds | Courses | Dist Sail'd in Mile | Latd in South | Longd in West from Greenw:h | Bearings At Noon |
| Sunday | 8 | So SW, Wt & NW | N. 72° W. | 33 | 51°.. 16' | 62°.. 50' |
Wind and weather both Variable, but for the most part little wind - PM loos'd the reef out of the Fore sail and two reefs out of each topsail — AM got topgt Yards aCross and loose'd all the reefs out. Soundings from 80 to 75 fathom
Concepts: sounding (nautical term)
Artefacts: reef (nautical term) | topgallant yards | yards
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