20 July 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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20 July 1770 Friday 290th Fresh breezes at SE and fair weather. In the PM got every thing on board the Ship, new berth'd her and let her swing with the tide. In the night the Master return'd with the Pinnace and reported that there was no safe passage for the Ship to the northward - At low water in the AM I went and sounded and buoy'd the bar, being now ready to put to sea the first oppertunity — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 268, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700720.html