9 July 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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9 July 1770 Monday 9th Gentle breezes in the day at SE in the night calm - In the PM Mr Gore and Mr Banks returnd having met with nothing remarkable   they were about 3 or 4 Leags ^up in the country without finding hardly any Variation either in the soil or produce: In the evening the Master returnd having been seven Leagues out at sea and at that distance off saw shoals without him and was of opinion that there was no geting out to sea that way,  in his return he touched upon one of the shoals the same as he was upon the first time he was out.   here he saw a great number of turtle three of which he caught weighing 791 pounds. this occasiond my sending him out again this morning provided with proper geer for Strikeing them he having before nothing but a boat hook — Carpenters smiths and Coopers at their respective employments and the seamn employ'd geting on board stone ballast. This day all hands feasted upon turtle for the first time — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 264, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700709.html