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Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, Vols. II - III

Table of Contents On this day ... 25 - 28 February 1770 Endeavour Voyage Maps James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia Transcript of Cook's Journal Joseph Banks's Journal Sydney Parkinson's Journal Range from Cape Turnagain to Western Entrance of Cook's Streight Index Search Contact us

Range from Cape Turnagain to Western Entrance of Cook's Streight (continued) We kept at a small distance from the shore all this morning, with the wind at S.W. and had a very distinct view of it: it is of a moderate height, and the surface is broken by many hills, which are green and woody; but we saw no appearance of inhabitants. At noon, Cape Saunders bore N. 30 W. distant about four leagues. We had variable winds and calms till five o’clock in the evening, when it fixed at W.S.W. and soon blew so hard that it put us past our topsails, and split the foresail all to pieces: after getting another to the yard, we continued to stand to the southward under two courses; and at six the next morning, the southermost land in sight bore W. by N. and Cape Saunders N. by W. distant eight leagues: at noon, it bore N. 20 W. fourteen leagues; and our latitude by observation was 46° 36’. The gale continued, with heavy squalls and a large hollow sea all the afternoon; and at seven in the evening, we lay to under our foresail, with the ship’s head to the southward: at noon on the 27th, our latitude was 46° 54’, and our longitude from Cape Saunders 1° 24’ E. At seven in the evening, we made sail under our courses; and at eight the next morning set the topsails close reefed. At noon, our latitude was 47° 43’, and our longitude east from Cape Saunders 2° 10’. At this time, we wore and stood to the northward: in the afternoon, we found the variation to be 16° 34’ E. At eight in the evening, we tacked and stood to the southward, with the wind at west. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from Vols. II-III of the London 1773 edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, pages 419 - 420, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/hv23/419.html