22 November 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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22 November 1769 Wednesday 22nd Winds at NNW. The PM fresh gales and hazey with rain, the remainder Moderate and clear    At 3 PM the tide of Ebb. makeing we took up our Anchors and got under Sail and ply'd down the Bay River untill 8 oClock when we again came to an Anchor in 7 fathom a muddy bottom. At 3 AM weighd with the first of the Ebb and kept plying untill the flood obliged us to anchor again. After this I went in the Pinnace over to the western shore but found their neither inhabitants or any thing else worthy of note. At the time I left the Ship a good ma[n]y of the natives were along side and on board the Ship trafficking with our people for such trifles as they had and seem'd to behave as will as people could do.   but one of them took the half hour glass out of the Bitticle and was caught in the very fact and for which Mr Hick who was the Commanding officer, brought him to the gang way and gave him a Dozn lashes with a Catt of nine tails. The rest of the people seem'd not displeased at it when they came to know what it was for, and one old man beat the fellow after he had got into his Canoe    however soon after this they all went away. The punishing this Man in this manner might have had some good effect had we been going to stay any time in this place, but as we was going away it might as well have been let a lone — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 150, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17691122.html