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

CHAPTER 2
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Saw a Tropic Bird.

Wind, East-North-East and East-South-East; course, North 47 degrees 15 minutes West; distance, 50 miles; latitude 29 degrees 43 minutes South, longitude 126 degrees 53 minutes West.
Thursday, 16th.

Light Airs next to a Calm and clear Weather.

Variation by the mean result of 21 Azimuths, 1 degree 30 minutes East.

This evening observed an Occultation of h by the [crescent],* (* h is Saturn, [crescent] the Moon.) Immersion at -- -- hours -- -- minutes and Emersion at -- -- hours -- -- minutes -- -- seconds a.m.* (* Blanks in manuscript.) Variation per several Azimuths 2 degrees East.


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