30 May 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 29 - 30 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...

30 May 1769 Tuesday 30th We are now very buisy in preparing our Instruments &Ca for the Observation and Instructing such Gentlemen in the use of them as I intend to send to other parts to Observe for fear we should fail here — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 66, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17690530.html