Series 12.08: Captn Cookes Letter Abstract' being summary, prepared by Banks, of a letter received by Sir Philip Stephens, from James Cook written on 28 October 1778. Summary prepared ca 1779 - No. 0004

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I intend to search again next year for a passage but despair.

Ice is not the only obstacle the Coasts of the two continents are flat for some distance off in the middle between the two is little depth of water which with the circumstances tends to prove that there is more Land in the Frozen Sea than as yet we know of where the Ice has its source & that the Polar part is far from being an open Ice.

have lost Mr. Anderson a month ago one man of a Dropsy & one of C Clarkes drowned.

Crew healthy no scurvy.

Resolution at the Island of Unalaschka [also spelt Unalaska]
on the Coast of America - 53.55.192:30
Octr. 20 1778

Islands discoverd in the Voyage not mentioned in this Letter

Mangia-nove-nai-naiwa  -  S 21:57   201.53

Wantieu - S 20.01   201.45

Too booi  -  S 23.25   210.24

These 3 are inhabited with anchorage & good landing at the last but not the others.