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8 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 | Month Days | Winds | Course's | Distce Sail'd in Miles | Lat. In [South] | Longd in [West from] Greenwich | Bearings at Noon |
| Apl 1769 | |||||||
| Saturday | 8 | EBS & East | N 87°..Wt | 100 | 17..43 | 145°..16' |
Fresh Trade and pleasent weather, but about noon had a few flying showers of rain-- Varn 6°..32' East —
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