31 March 1771

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

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31 March 1771 Sunday 31st Clear pleasent weather all this day. In the morning we got on boa^rd a whole Ox which we cut up and salted- I had eat ashore some of as good and fat beef as ever I eat in my life and was told that I might have as good to salt, but in this I was very much disapointed, the one I got was thin and lean, yet well taisted    it weighed 408 lbs Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 363, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17710331.html