26 December 1769

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 26 December 1769 Endeavour Voyage Maps James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia Joseph Banks's Journal Sydney Parkinson's Journal 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...

26 December 1769 Tuesday 26th Moderate breezes Easterly and hazey weather. Standing to the southward close upon a wind at Noon was in the Latd of 35°..10' So and Longd 188°..20' Wt. The Island of the Three Kings N. 26° West distt 22 Leage. In this situation had no land in sight and yet by observation we are in the Latitude of the Bay of Islands and by my reckoning but 30 Leagues to the westward of the North Cape from whence it appears that the northern part of this Land must be very narrow otherwise we must have seen some part of the west side of it — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 167, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17691226.html