30 April 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 30 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 References Index Search Contact us Search for Nautical Term in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine...

30 April 1769 Sunday, 30th This being the Day that Owhaa told us that ^ we should fire our Guns, no one of us went from the Fort ^ except such as were sent out to watch the Motions of the natives   however the day past over without any Visable alteration in the beheavour of any one of the Natives them   Queen Obaria visited us this morning pretty early and made me sencible that I must give her a hatchet & then she would give me a Pig. I agree'd to her plan and the Pig was produced — Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: pigs in Maohi society People in South Seas Companion: Owhaa (Hua), chief in Ha'apape district, Tahiti | Purea Places: Fort Venus Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 58, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17690430.html