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

CHAPTER 2
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Variation 18 degrees 36 minutes East.

Soundings from 46 to 50 fathoms; fine dark sand.

Wind South-Easterly; course South 18 degrees West; distance 43 miles; latitude 43 degrees 14 minutes South, longitude 60 degrees 26 minutes West.
[January 1769.] Sunday, January 1st, 1769.

First and Latter part, fresh breezes and Clear weather; in the Middle, light Airs and Calm.

At Noon, longitude in per 4 Sets of Observations between the sun and moon 61 degrees 8 minutes 28 seconds west.


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