5 August 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 5 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...

5 August 1769 Saturday 5th This evening we bought as much fish as the whole Ships Compney could destroy while good   In the morning I sent the Master to the north end of the Island with the Long-boat to traffick with the Natives for Provisions as they did not bring it to the ship as they had hither to done, and my self, accompaned by Mr Banks and Dr Solander went in the Pinnace to the Southern part of the Island partly on the same account and ^partly to examine that part of the Island - In our rout we pass'd thro' two harbours equally as good as the ^ one in which the ship lays.   but the country about them is poorer and but thinly inhabited, and we got no one thing worth bringing home with us, but the Master succeeded something better — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 100, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17690805.html