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An Historical Event : Captain Cook's First Landing on Australian Soil extract   diary  
Issue Details: First known date: 1903... 1903 An Historical Event : Captain Cook's First Landing on Australian Soil
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  • Extract from Captain Cook's journal referring to his landing in Botany Bay.

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    y separately published work icon School Paper for Classes V and VI no. 49 February 1903 Z1580275 1903 periodical issue 1903 pg. [1]-5
    Note: Illustrations include an untitled map (unattributed) of Botany Bay and Port Jackson and painting, 'Captain Cook Landing at Botany Bay' (unattributed).
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y separately published work icon Journal of the H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771 James Cook , 1768-1771 (Manuscript version)x402057 Z1559913 1768-1771 single work diary

'Holograph journal of the voyage of H.M.S. Endeavour during which Cook discovered Eastern Australia and circumnavigated New Zealand. Bound with the journal is a copy of a report from John Hutchinson, surgeon of the Dolphin to Capt. Samuel Wallis, 16th May 1768, of observations on the effects of saloop, portable soup, mustard and vinegar, distilled water and beef fat on scurvy.'

For further details and publications of the journal see J.C. Beaglehole (ed.) The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery I (1955-1974): cxciv-cciv.

(National Library of Australia record)

'The Endeavour Journal was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2001.' (National Library of Australia record)
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