11 June 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 11 June 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...

11 June 1769 Sunday 11th Clowdy with rain last night and this Morning the remainder of the ^ day fair weather. This Day Mr Banks and I took Tabia Toobouratomita on board the Ship and shew'd him the Print containing the Colours worne by the Ships of different Nations and very soon made him understand that we wanted to know which of them it was worne by the Ships that were at Ohidea he at once pitched upon the Spanish Flag and would by no means admit of any other: this together with several Articles we have lately seen amongest these people Such as Jackets Shirts &Ca usually worne by Spanish Seamen, proves beyond doubt that they must have been Ships of that Nation and come from some Port on the Coast of South America — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 68, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17690611.html