10 February 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 10 February 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 Index Search Contact us Search for Nautical Term in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine...

10 February 1770 Saturday 10th Gentle breezes at SE and Clowdy weather. At 4 PM Tacked and Stood SW untill 8 AM when being not above 3 or 4 Miles from the shore we tacked at [and] stood off two hours, then stood again to the SW untill noon when being in the Latitude of 41°..13' So and about two miles from the shore, the land of Cape Pallisser bearing So 53° West had 26 fathom water — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 189, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700210.html