22 January 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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22 January 1770 Monday 22d PM and in the night had Variable light airs and Calms, AM had a fresh breeze Southly and Clowdy weather. In the morning the people were set about the necessary business of the Ship and I set out in the Pinnace / accompanied by Mr Banks and Dr Solander / with a view of examining the head of the Inlet, but after rowing between 4. and 5 Leagues up it and finding no probability of reaching or even seeing the end of it and the wind being againest us ^and the day already half spent we landed ^at noon on the SE side in order to try to get upon some one of the hills to View the Inlet from thence — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 177, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700122.html