4 May 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 4 May 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...

4 May 1769 Thursday 4th Some people came to the Fort to day from York Island, one of them gave us an account of 22 Islands lying in the neighbourhood of this--  Set up the two Clocks, the one in the Tent wherein Mr Green and I lay and the other in the observatory- This evening Toota ha sent a Man again for the Ax and Shirt.   and we sent him word by the same Man, that Mr Banks and I would come and see him tomorrow and bring them along with us; for it now became necessary that we should take some step in order to reconcile this man to us in order to procure a Sufficient supply of Bread fruit and Cocoa-nuts which we have not had for these two days past, owing as we apprehend to Tootaha's not being reconciled to our ^ being still displeas'd with our late conduct, or otherways the people take this method to shew their resentment of the treatment their Chief met with — Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: breadfruit | coconut palm People in South Seas Companion: Tutaha ('Hercules') Places: Fort Venus | Mo'orea (York), island Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 60, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17690504.html