3 August 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 3 August 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...

3 August 1769 Thursday 3rd Winds from ESE to NE Very hot weather. This after noon I went ashore to look for a place to get Stones for Ballast and a watering place, both of which I found very convenient and in the morning sent an Officer a shore to superintend the get^ting off Ballast and water and I went in the Pinnace to the Eastward ^Northward to survey that part of the Island, accompined by Mr Banks and Dr Solander, while the Carpenters were Employd on board stoping the leakes of the Powder-room and fore sail room and this was a nother reason why I put in here as these things could not have been done at Sea — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 99, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17690803.html