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12 February 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 | Distce Sail'd in Miles | Latd in | Longd in Greenwich | Bearings at Noon |
| Sunday | 12 | SW & So | No 48° W | 113 | 49°..41' | 89°..36' |
First and Middle part fresh gales and clowdy latter little wind and clear. having for some time past generally found the Ship by Obsern to the Northward of the Logg, which is not owing to a current as I at first imagined but to a wrong division of the Log line being 21/2 feet in each knot; but this is now rectified —
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