1 August 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 1 August 1770 Endeavour Voyage Maps James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia Joseph Banks's Journal Sydney Parkinson's Journal The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth 1770 Index Search Contact us Search for Nautical Term in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine...

1 August 1770 Wednesday 1st Strong gales from the SE with Squals attended with rain. In the PM the Yawl came in with two rays which together weigh'd 265 lb   it blowed too hard all the time they were out for strikeing turtle. Carpenters employ'd overhauling the Pumps all of which we find in a state of decay and this the Carpenter says is owing to the sap having been left on which in time has decay'd the sound wood. one of them is quite useless and was so rotten when hoisted up as to drop to pieces, however I cannot complain of a leaky ship for the most water she makes is not quite an Inch an hour — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 270, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700801.html