8 October 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 8 October 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...

8 October 1769 Sunday 8th Gentle breezes between the ENE and north, clear weather. At 5 PM seeing the opening of a Bay that appear'd to run pretty far inland, hauled our wind and stood in for it, but as soon as night came on we kept plying on and off untill day light when we found our selves to Leeward of the Bay the wind being at north. By noon we fetched in with the SW point, but not being able to weather it we tacked and stood off. We saw in the Bay several Canoes, People upon the shore and some houses in the country. The land on the Sea-Coast is high with steep clifts and back inland are very high mountains   the face of the Country is of a hilly surface and appeares to be clo^athed with wood and Verdure — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 120, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17691008.html