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

CHAPTER 1
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Fresh breezes and Cloudy weather.

The Observed Latitude to the Northward of that given by the Log 9 miles, which I suppose must be owing to a Current.

Wind South by East to South-East by South; course South 42 degrees West; distance 88 miles; latitude 3 degrees 44 minutes North, longitude 25 degrees 23 minutes West; at noon, Bonavista, South-East point, North 14 degrees East, 253 leagues.
Thursday, 20th.

A Genteel gale and Clear weather.

At a little before 5 p.m.had an Observation of the sun and moon, which gave the Longitude 25 degrees 46 minutes West from Greenwich, which is more Westerly than that by account carried on from the last Observation; and the Observed latitude being again to the Northward shows that there must be a current setting between the North and West.


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