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29 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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Saturday, 29th This day got the four Guns out of the Hold and mounted 2 of them on the Quarter Deck. and the other 2 in the Fort on the bank of the River —
For this day or 2 past about 30 Double Canoes, in which might be between 2 & 300 people, had come into our neighbourhood this made us keep a very good lookout & a strick eye over all their motions —
Artefacts: canoes, in the Society Islands | carriage guns
Places: Fort Venus
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