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

CHAPTER 1
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Wind West to South-West; course South 36 degrees East; distance 82 miles; latitude 45 degrees 3 minutes North, longitude 8 degrees 43 minutes West; at noon, Lizard North-North-East, 105 leagues.
[September 1768.

Plymouth to Madeira.] Thursday, September 1st.

Very hard gales, with some heavy showers of Rain, the most part of these 24 Hours, which brought us under our two Courses, Broke one of our Main Topmast phuttock Plates, washed overboard a small Boat belonging to the Boatswain, and drowned between 3 and 4 Dozen of our Poultry, which was worst of all.

Towards Noon it moderated, so that we could bear our Maintopsail close Reefd.

At Midnight wore and stood to the Southward.


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