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24 August 1770 24. Swell continued and in the morn the Best bower cable was broke in weighing by it. The whole day was spent in fruitless attempts to recover the anchor tho there was no more than 8 fathm water.
© Derived from State Library of NSW 1998 Transcription of Banks's Endeavour Journal page (vol.2) *254, 2004 Published by South Seas, using the Web Academic Resource Publisher To cite this page use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ss-jrnl-banks-17700824 |