18 December 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 18 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...

18 December 1769 Monday 18th Moderate breezes at West and WNW and Clear weather. At 4 PM Tack'd and and stood inshore, in the doing of which we met with a strong rippling and the Ship ^fell fast to leeward occasioned as we thought by a Current seting to the Eastward, at 8 Tack'd and stood off north untill 8 AM when we tacked and stood in being about 10 Leagues from the land: At Noon the point of land we wasere near yesterday at noon bore SSW distt 5 Leagues, Latd Obd 34°..8' So - 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/17691218.html