Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0118
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off Cape Maria Van Diemen
more passd in sight of Cape Maria & the 3 Kings
31. Wind as yesterday sea something abated stood in for the Land which we had not now seen for some time dared not venture very near as the wind was right on shore it appeard very sandy & barren
Janry 1770.1. The new year began with more moderate weather than the old one ended with but wind as foul as ever we venturd to go a little nearer the land which appeard on this side the cape much as it had done on the other almost intirely occupied by vast sands our Surveyors suppose the Cape shapd like a shoulder of mutton with the Knuckle placd inwards where they say the land cannot be above 2 or 3 miles over & that here most probably in high winds the sea washes quite over the sands which in that place are low
2 Weather not yet setled in the morn we stood S. & soon lost sight of the land which we saw no more all day
3. Stood in for the land with weather more more moderate than it has been for some