30 March 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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30 March 1770 Friday 30th Winds at SE a moderate breeze, the first and middle parts dark hazey weather with rain the latter fair. In the AM as the wind seem'd to be settled at SE and having nearly compleated our water we warp'd the Ship out of the Cove in order to have room to get under sail, before this was done it was Noon at which time I went away in the Pinnace in order to examine the Bay and to explore as much of it as the little time I had would admit — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 205, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700330.html