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2 April 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 | Lat. in [South] | Longd in West from Greenwich | Bearings &Ca at Noon |
| Apl 1769 | |||||||
| Sunday | 2 | East | N 861/2 W | 118 | 19..0 | 135..33 |
A fresh trade wind and fine pleasent weather. At Noon saw a large flock of Birds, they had brown backs and white bellies, they fly and make a noise like a Stearings and are shaped like them only some thing larger- saw likewise some black sheer waters and several Men of War Birds —
Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: great frigate bird (man of war bird) | sooty shearwater | sooty tern
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