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

CHAPTER 5
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A Gentle breeze at South-East, the weather a little hazey.
P.M., stood to the South-West.

At 4 the land above mentioned bore South-East by South, distant 4 Leagues.

It proves to be a small Island, which we take to be the 3 Kings discover'd by Tasman; there are several Smaller Islands or Rocks lying off the South-West end and one at the North-East end.

It lies in the Latitude of 34 degrees 10 minutes South, and Longitude 187 degrees 45 minutes West and West 14 degrees North, 14 or 15 Leagues from the North Cape.

At Midnight Tack'd and stood to the North-East until 6 a.m., then Tack'd and stood to the Southward.


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