17 December 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 17 December 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 December 1769 Sunday 17th A Gentle breeze between the SWBW and West, with Clear weather - In Standing inshore sounded several times but had no ground with 90 fathoms of line - At 8 AM tacked in 108 fathom 3 or 4 miles from the Shore, being the same point of land as we had to the N.W. of us before we was were blown off - At Noon it bore SW distant about 3 Miles, the West head of Mount Camel bore SBE distant 11 Leagues and the westermost land in sight bore So 75° Wt Latd observed 34°..20' S. The people at work repairing the Sails.    the most of them having been split in the late blowing weather — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 165, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17691217.html