21 June 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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21 June 1770 Thursday 21st In the PM landed the Powder, got out the stone ballast wood, &Ca which brought the Ships draught of water to 8F..10I forward and 13 feet abaft   this I thought by triming the Coals aft wou'd be sufficient as I find the tides will rise and fall upon a perpendicular 8 feet at spring tides, but after the coals was trim'd away from over the leak we could hear the water come gushing in a little abaft the fore mast & about 3 feet from her keel   this determined me to clear the hold intirely    Accordingly very early in the morning we went to work to get out the Coals which was employment for all hands Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 259, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700621.html