23 June 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 23 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...

23 June 1769 Friday 23rd This morning Manuel Ferrara Seaman a Portugese was missing, and I had some reason to think that he was gone with an intent to stay here. It was not long before I was inform'd that he was at Apparra with Tootaha, the man who gave us this information was one of Tootahas Servants, he was offer'd a Hatchet if he would go to Apparra and bring him to us   this was perhaps no doubt the very thing he came for, for he immidiately set out and return'd with the man in the evening; He the man in his difence said, that as he was going to the boat to go on board last night, he was taken away by force by 3 men, put into a canoe and carried to apparra and upon enquiry I found it to be so and that Tootaha wanted to ^ wold have kept him, he had not been perswaided to the contrary, or perhaps he thought the ax od more value then the man — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 71, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17690623.html