Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0494
Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 494]
390.
Streight of Sunda
Capes & Headlands in the air yet no real land was seen which made us rather uneasy as we had great reason to suppose that we had overshot the Mouth of the Streights no very agreable Idea We had made 15':30" of Longitude from the South end of Timor & thought our selves quite safe as La Neptune Oriental makes the difference to be 18':40" yet when we recollected that our Countrey man Dampier makes only 14'. we had reason to be uneasy so at sun set we clap'd close upon a wind in order to make the best of our bargain howsoever it might turn out
[Margin note] Octr.
1. Thunder & lightning with heavy rain all night about 12 Land was seen by the flashes which in Morn provd to be Java head & princes Island at noon we had a good Observation & found that Princes Island was laid down in La Neptune Oriental. 7 or 8 miles too far to the Northward & in the English East India Pilot or Quarter Waggoner 21 or 22. this which extrordinary difference in the latter seems owing to some mistake in his particular Draught of the Streights all parts of which are laid down 14" at least different from the rest