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16 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 | Course's | Distce Sail'd in Miles | Latd in | Longd in Wt Greenwch | Bearings &Ca Noon |
| Thursday | 16 | NW West and South | N 74° Wt | 97 | 48..0 | 94°..25' |
The first part of this day had fresh gales and clowdy, in the night thick hazey weather with heavy squalls of wind and rain, which obliged us to close reef our topsails; in the Morning and all the fore noon had Strong gales and clowdy weather and - very heavy seas from the SSW, one of which broke upon the quarter and carried away the driver boom —
Artefacts: reef (nautical term)
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