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29 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 | Mo Days | Winds | Course's | Distce Sail'd in Miles | Latd in South | Longd in W: from Greenwich | Bearings &Ca Noon |
| Sunday | 29 | Wt Northerly | S.W. | 79 - | 59..0 | 72° 48 |
First and latter parts fresh gales and squally with flying showers of rain and Hail. the Middle Strong gales with heavy Squalls and showers of rain. at 8 PM took the 2nd reef in the topsails — at 6 AM Close reef'd the Fore topsail and took in the Mizen topsail, and at 10 set it again and loosed the reef out of the ^ fore top sail —
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