On this day ...
8 March 1771
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
1771
Index
Search
Contact us
Search for Nautical Term in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine...
| Week Days | Mo Ds | Winds | Course's | Distce Saild | Lat. in South | Longd in West | |
| Miles | ° ' | ° ' | |||||
| 109 | |||||||
| Friday | 8 | Do | S391/2° | 34..18 | 333..19 Pr Ob. | ||
| Easterly | 324..23 pr R. |
In the PM Stood to the westward with the Wind at SBW untill 4 oClock than again to the Eastward having the land in sight extending from NNE to WBN distant 8 Leagues - At 12 the wind ver'd to the Eastward and before noon blowd a fresh breeze with which we steerd SW- At 7 the land extending from NNW to ENE distant 10 or 12 Ls. Found the Variation by the Ampd to be 28°.30' West and by an Azth 28°..8' West At Noon Lat. Observed 34°..18' which is 93 Miles to the Southward of that given by the Log. or dead reckoning sence the last Observation — and by an ob. of ye
&
made this morning found the ship had got 7°..4' ^Wt of ye log since my last observations
 |
Voyaging Accounts |  |
© Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 356, 2004
Published by kind permission of the Library
To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17710308.html