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Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER 10
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Wind South-East by South; course South 58 1/2 degrees West; distance 119 miles; latitude 14 degrees 44 minutes South; longitude 261 degrees 40 minutes West.
Saturday, 2nd.

A Fresh Trade, and mostly fair weather.

Departed this life Daniel Roberts, Gunner's Servant, who died of the Flux.

Since we have had a fresh Trade Wind this fatal disorder hath seem'd to be at a stand; yet there are several people which are so far gone, and brought so very low by it, that we have not the least hopes of their recovery.

Wind East-South-East; course South 61 degrees West; distance 131 miles; latitude 15 degrees 48 minutes South; longitude 264 degrees 16 minutes West.
Sunday, 3rd.


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