2 February 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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2 February 1770 Friday 2d In the PM the gale increased to a storm attended with rain and squalls which came ^down in excessive heavy gusts from off the high land, in one of which the hawser we had fast to the ^Shore brok  this obliged us to let go another anchor. Towards midnight the gale moderated and in the morning it fell calm and we took up the Sheet anchor look'd at the best bower and moor'd the Ship again to the shore. The heavy rains which hath fell and still continues to fall hath the caused the brook we water'd at to over flow its banks and carry away ten small Casks we had standing there full of water and not withstanding we searched the whole Cove we could not find one of them. Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 182, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700202.html