Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0265
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May 1770 New South Wales
wetted all our sails as compleatly as if they had been dippd overboard; for several days past our dews have been uncommonly large most part of the day was calm, at night a foul wind.
8. Very light breezes & weather sultry all day we had lost ground yesterday so the land was what we had seen before upon it however we observd several fires upon it at night a foul wind rose up much at the same time & much in the same manner as yesterday.
9. Wind continued foul & we turnd to windward all day to no manner of purpose
10. Last night a very heavy squall came off from the land which according to the seamens phrase made all sneer again it pay'd however for the trouble it gave by bringing a fair wind in the morn the land appeard broken & likely for harbours its face was very various some parts being well wooded & others coverd with bare sand
11. Fair wind continued, Land today trended rather more to the Northward than it had lately done, look'd broken & likely for inlets. at Sunset three remarkable hills were abreast the ship, standing near the shore, of nearly equal size & shape; behind them