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24 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
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Wednesday 24th Fine Clear weather all this Day - Having found the Long-boat leakey for these few days past, we haled her ashore to day to stop the leakes, when to our great surprise we found her bottom so much eaten by the worms that it was necessary to give her a new one, and all the Carpenters ^ were immidiatly set to work upon her —
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