Home
Endeavour Voyage Journals
About these Texts
Transcript of James Cook's Daily Journal Entries
Transcript of Cook's Descriptions of Places
Transcript of Joseph Banks's Daily Journal Entries
Transcript of Banks's Descriptions of Places
Text of Sydney Parkinson's Account of the Voyage
Text of John Hawkesworth's Narrative Account, Volume I
Text of John Hawkesworth's Narrative Account, Volumes II - III
Indigenous Prespectives
Cultural Maps
The Memoirs of Arii Taimai
James Morrison's Account of the Island of Tahiti
Maps and Charts
Index to Interactive Maps of Cook's Voyage
Charts and Coastal Views in Volume One of Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages
Charts and Coastal Views in Volumes Two and Three of Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages
Reference Works
Browse the South Seas Companion
Consult Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine
20 January 1769
James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries
Table of Contents
On this day ...
20 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
References
Index
Search
Contact us
Search for Nautical Term in Falconer's
Dictionary of the Marine...
20 January 1769
Friday 20
th
Moderate gales and clowdy with frequent showers of rain all this day: this evening the Surf abated and at 2
AM
sent the People on shoar to Wood and water and cut brooms all of which we compleated this day — in this service we lost our small Kedge anchor, it having been laid off the watering place to ride the Long boat by, and the gale had brok a way the Hawser and Buoy rope, and perhaps buried the anchor in the sand, for notwithstanding our utmost endeavour We were not able to hook it —
took up the Stream Anchor and made ready for sailing —
Artefacts:
bouy
|
longboat
|
stream anchor
Voyaging Accounts
© Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 29, 2004
Published by
kind permission of the Library
To cite this page use:
https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17690120.html