In the canon
The Journals of Captain Cook
James Cook
- Form
- Form Diary
- Year
- Year 1773
- Pages
- Pages 650
Latitude, longitude, the set of the wind, the number of men down with scurvy: the log keeps its columns even as the Endeavour noses into water no European chart has ever held. That is the strange, quiet greatness of Cook's journals.
I now once More hoisted English Colours, and in the Name of His Majesty King George the Third took possession of the whole Eastern coast
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