1 July 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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1 July 1770 Sunday 1st Gentle breezes at SE and clowdy weather with some gentle showers in the morning - In the PM the People returnd from hauling the Sain having caught as much fish as came to 21/2 pound a Man - no one on board having more than a nother, the few greens we got I cause[d] to be boild a mong the Pease and makes a very good mess which together with the fish is a great refreshment to the people - In the AM a party of men ^/one from each mess / went again afishing and all the rest I gave leave to go into the Country knowing that there was no danger from the natives. To day at noon the Thermometer in the shade ris to 8° which is two or three degrees higher then it has been on any day before — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 262, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700701.html