CaptainCookSociety @CaptCookSociety
The Captain Cook Society is for anyone interested in Captain James Cook, whether professionally or as a hobby. see also https://t.co/foZILPHNu6 captaincooksociety.com Joined April 2018-
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Setting sail for Hobart! 👋 The Endeavour has departed for the Australian Wooden Boat Festival! Join us Feb 7-10 for the Pacifica-themed festival. Follow along the trip with sea.museum/en/aboard-ende… #TallShip #Endeavour #WoodenBoats
On 31 December 1774, #CaptainCook in #HMSResolution at South America wrote, “bore up for the East end of Staten land”.
On 30 December 1774, #CaptainCook in #HMSResolution at South America wrote, “we had light airs & Calms by turns... we were driven by the Current over to Staten Land. The calm was succeeded by a light breeze at NNW with which we stood over for Success Bay... I was here in 1769".
On 29 December 1774, #JohannReinholdForster in #HMSResolution wrote, “saw on some Rocks... such Flocks of Shags as I never saw before: the tops of them were all covered with 1000’s of these Birds”.
On 29 December 1774, #CaptainCook in #HMSResolution at South America wrote, “At 4 Cape Horn, for which we now steered, bore EBS... At half past 7 we passed this famous Cape and entered the Southern Atlantick Ocean”.
On 28 December 1774, #CaptainCook in #HMSResolution at South America wrote, “weighed and stood out to Sea... At Sun-set [saw] a point... In some Charts it is called False Cape Horn, as being the Southern point of Terra del Fuego”. Cook was here in #HMBEndeavour in January 1769.
On 27 December 1774, #CaptainCook in #HMSResolution wrote, “Having already compleated our water, I order’d the Wood, Tent and observatory to be got onboard... The Festival which we celebrated at this place occasion’d my giving it the name of Christmas Sound”.
On 26 December 1774, #JohannReinholdForster in #HMSResolution at South America wrote, “The Captain sent all drunken noisy fellows a shore, to take there an airing & get sober again... We described various plants & birds. My Son, Mr Sparman & I fell sick at dinner from the Soup".
On 25 December 1774, #JohannReinholdForster in #HMSResolution wrote, “All went on with a great deal of mirth & Glee & we went to bed at 3 o’clock in the morning at broad daylight”.
On 25 December 1774, #JohannReinholdForster in wrote, “We sat down to our Dinner, which consisted chiefly of Dishes made of Geese in various ways. Our Soup was made of geese, we had Geese, boiled, roasted, & in Pyes, & plenty of fine Sellery in the Soup & for Sallad”.
On 25 December 1774, #CaptainCook in #HMSResolution at South America wrote, for “our Christmas Cheer... we had not experienced such fare for some time, Roast and boiled Geese, Goose pies &ca was victuals little known to us, and we had yet some Madeira Wine left”.
On 24 December 1774, #JohannReinholdForster in #HMSResolution wrote, “We... prepared every thing for to treat as many Gentlemen as our Cabin & Table could hold. We were disturbed during the night by our Ships-Crew, who allmost all got drunk in honor of the Christmass-day”.
On 24 December 1774, First Lieutenant Robert Palliser Cooper in #HMSResolution wrote, “The Captain serv’d out to the Shups Company a Goose to every 3 men”.
On 24 December 1774, #CaptainCook in #HMSResolution at South America wrote "on the South side of the isle were abundance of Geese; it happen’d to be the Moulting season and the most of them were ashore for this purpose and could not fly... [we] got Sixty two... aboard”.
On 23 December 1774, #CaptainCook in #HMSResolution off South America “Sent Lieut Pickersgill in the Cutter to explore the East side of the Inlet, my self acompaned by the two Mr Forsters and Mr Sparman went in the Pinnace to the West”.
On 22 December 1774, First Lieutenant Robert Palliser Cooper in #HMSResolution , wrote “Found Willm Wedgeborough Marine missing who we imagine fell over board last night as he was seen very much in Liquor at 12 O’Clock & was drown’d”.
On 22 December 1774, #JohannReinholdForster in #HMSResolution wrote “we found two old Birds, with some Young ones, shaped like Duck & very shy, running on the Water & beating it with their Wings, which gives them such a velocity as hardly a Bird has, when flying ever so swift".
On 22 December 1774, #CaptainCook in #HMSResolution off South America wrote, “sent Lieutenants Clerke and Pickersgill... to examine and draw a sketch of the Channel... and I went my self in a nother boat accompanied by the Botanists, to survey the Northern parts of the Sound”.
On 21 December 1774, #CaptainCook in #HMSResolution off South America wrote, “we found a Cove in which was Anchorage... We went to work to clear a place to fill Water, cut wood and set up a Tent for the... observatory". They were now at Christmas Sound.
On 20 December 1774, #JohannReinholdForster in #HMSResolution saw “more than 30 Grampusses blowing & frisking about the Ship, chiefly in Couples”.
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