9 January 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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9 January 1770 Tuesday 9th Gentle breezes between the NE and NW, clowdy weather. Sailing along shore within sight of Land. At Noon Course and distance saild So 37° East 69 Miles, Latde in per Observation 36°..39' So The place we was were abreast of the 4th Inst. which we at first took for a Bay or Inlet, bore NEBN distant 51/2 Leagues and C. Maria Vandiemen bore N. 29° Wt dist. 47 Leags Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 172, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700109.html