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

CHAPTER 8
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Mount Warning bore South 20 degrees West, distant 14 Leagues; the Northermost land in sight bore North.

Our Course and distance made good since yesterday North 1 degree 45 minutes West, 53 miles.
[Off Moreton Bay, Queensland.] Thursday, 17th.

Winds Southerly, mostly a fresh breeze, with which in the P.M.we steer'd along shore North 3/4 East, at the distance of about 2 Leagues off.

Between 4 and 5 we discover'd breakers on our Larboard bow; our Depth of Water at this time was 37 fathoms.

At sunset the Northermost land in sight bore North by West, the breakers North-West by West, distant 4 Miles, and the Northermost land set at Noon, which form'd a Point, I named Point Lookout, bore West, distant 5 or 6 Miles (Latitude 27 degrees 6 minutes).* (* There is some mistake in this latitude.


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