13 May 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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13 May 1770 Sunday 13th In the PM stood in shore with the wind at NE untill 6 oClock at which time we tack'd being about 3 or 4 Miles from the land and in 24 fathom water — Stood off shore with a fresh breeze at North and NNW untill ^Midnight at night then tackd being in 118 fathom water and 8 Leagues from the Land - At 3 AM the wind veer'd to the westward and we tack'd and stood to the northward - At Noon we were by observation in the Latitude of 30°..43' So and Longde 206°..45' west and about 3 or 4 Leagues from the Land  the northermost part of which bore from us N. 13° West and a point or head land on which were fires that caused a great quantity of smook which occasioned my giving it the name of smooky Cape, bore SW distant 4 Leagues.   it is moderatly high land, over the pitch of the point is a round hillock    within it two others much higher and largers [sic] and within them very low land - Latitude 30°..51' So Longitude 206° 54' West,   besides the smook we saw seen upon this Cape we saw ^more in several places along the Coast — Variation pr Azths The observed Latitude was only 5 Miles to the southrd of the Log — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 235, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700513.html