17 November 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 17 November 1769 Endeavour Voyage Maps James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia Joseph Banks's Journal Sydney Parkinson's Journal Other Accounts ... • 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...

17 November 1769 17th The fore and middle parts had fresh gales between the SW and WBS, and squally, kept plying to windward in order to get under the land - At 6 AM fetched close under the lee of the northernmost Island in sight, then tacked and stood to the Southward untill a 11 when ^ at this time we tack'd and stood to the Nd   the North head of Mercury Bay ^or Point Mercury bore SEBE distant 3 Leagues, being at this time between 2 and 3 Leagues from the main land and a breast of a place where there appear'd to be a Harbour, but the heavy squales which we had from the land would not permit us to take a nearer view of it, but soon brought us under our close reef'd topsails - At Noon the North head of           Bay Point Mercury bore SE distant 4 Leagues and the Westermost point of the Main land in sight bore N 60° Wt distant 5 Leagues. Over the N.W side of Mercury Bay is a pretty high round hill, riseing sloaping from the Shore of the Bay: this hill is very conspicuous from where we now are — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 147, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17691117.html