Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0117
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Decr. 1769. of Cape Maria Van Diemen
resolvd of them to make a Goose pye for tomorrows dinner
25. Christmas day Our Goose pye was Eat with great approbation & in the Evening all hands were as Drunk as our forefathers usd to be upon the like occasion
26. This morn all heads achd with yesterdays debauch wind has been Easterly these 3 or 4 days so we have not got at all nearer the Island than we were
27. Blows very hard a SE. so that we were again drove off the Land not much displeasd as we all rejoicd much that it was not an on shore wind.
28. Wind now SW right on shore but thank god we have so good an offing that we are in not the least danger all our sea people said that they never before were in so hard a summers Gale
29. Wind more moderate but still blows prodigiously fresh with a monstrous sea n o such summer Gales as this to the Norward sayd our Captn.
30. Blew very fresh still tho the heart of the Gale seemd to be broke we have been driven much to the Northward so that today we once