24 July 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 24 July 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...

24 July 1769 Monday 24th Winds Variable from SSE to NE. At 8 AM got under sail and Ply'd to the northward within the reef in order to go out at the northern channell, it being the broadest, but being little wind and meeting with Shoals we had not before discover'd we turned down but slowly — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 97, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17690724.html