29 June 1770

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29 June 1770 Friday 29th Wind and weather as yesterday and the Employment of the people the same   Lieutenant Gore having been 4 or 5 Miles in the Country where he met with nothing remarkable.   he saw the foot steps of Men and likewise those of 3 or 4 sorts of wild beasts but saw neither man nor beast.   some others of our people who were out yesterday on the north side of the harbour River met with a place where the natives had just been as there fires we still burning, but they saw no body nor have we seen one sence we have been in Port — In these excursions we found some Wild Yamms or Coccos growing in the swampy grounds and this afternoon I sent a party of men to gather some   the tops we found made good greens and eat exceeding well when boild but the roots were so bad ^Acrid that few besides myself could eat them - This night Mr Green and I observed an Emersion of ^Jupiter first Satellite which happen'd at 2h 58'.53" in the AM, the same Emersion happend at Greenwich according to calculation on the 30th at 5h..17'..43" in the PM; the difference is 14h..18'..50" equal to 1214°..42'..30" of Longitude which this place is west of Greenwich and its Latitude 15° 26' South. In the AM I sent some hands up with a boat up the harbour River to haul the sain while the rest were employ'd about the rigging and sundry other duties — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 261, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700629.html