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30 January 1770
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
1770
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Tuesday 30th Winds at N.W. gentle breezes and fair weather. Early in the AM a boat was sent to one of the Islands to get sellery to boil for the peoples breakfasts whilest our ^people were gathering it near some empty hutts a bout 20 of the Natives landed there, men women and children they had no sooner got out of their Canoes than 5 or 6 women set down together and cut and scarified their legs, thighs, Arms and faces some with shells and others with peices of jasper. so far as our people could understand them this was done on account of their husbands having been lately kill'd and devoured by their enimies; while the women
The Carpenter went into the woods with part of his crew to cut and square some timber to saw into boards for the use of the Ship and to prepare two posts to be set up as marks — with Inscriptions upon them —
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