1 December 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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1 December 1769 Friday 1st December. Winds at NNW a Gentle breeze. At 3 PM the Boats having returnd from sounding, I went with them over to the south side of the Harbour and landed upon the Main, accompaned by Mr Banks and Dr Solander   we met with nothing new or remarkable, the place where we landed was in a small sandy Cove where there are two small streams of fresh water and plenty of Wood for fuel, here was were likewise severl little plantations planted with Potatoes and Yams; the soil and natural produce of the Cuntry was much the same as what we have hitherto met with. The people we saw behaved to us with great marks of friendship. In the evening we had some very heavy showers of rain and this brought us on board sooner than we intended — AM the wind being still contrary I sent some people a shore upon the Island to cut Grass for our Sheep in the doing of which the inhabitants gave them no sort of disturbance and in the same friendly manner did those behave that were along side the Ship. Punished Mathw Cox with half a Dozn lashes and then dismissed him - Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 158, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17691201.html