First Voyage Project

Honouring the 250th Anniversary of Captain Cook's First Voyage of Discovery - reliving the adventure in real time - Find us on Facebook

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It might not look like much now - but #Welcome to the First Voyage Projects home on the web - #research, #timelines and more will be updated here - #GetInvolved and help us re-tell this epic #adventure https://t.co/KS4i3yaUFg #Cook250 #History #RoyalNavy #CaptainCook #JosephBanks

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#OTD 13 Sep 1768 - Cook and the Crew of Endeavour reached #Madeira #Portugal.

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#OTD 13th Sep 1768 #Parkinson's Journal: We continued our course, and met with no material occurrence till the 12th; then we discovered Puerto Santo, about nine leagues off; soon after we saw the island of Madeira, and, on the 13th, in the morning, anchored in Fonchiale Bay.

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observable in ascending the hills; this we experien[c]d in a visit to Dr Heberden, who lives about two miles from the town, we left the Thermometer when we set out at 74 and found it there at 66. 32/32

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Wheel carriages I saw none in the Island of any sort or kind, indeed their
roads are so intolerably bad that if they had them they could scarcely make
use of them: they have however some horses and mules, wonderfully
clever in traveling upon them, notwithstanding 26/32

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particular to follow exactly the paths of their forefathers. Indeed were the people here only tolerably industrious, there is scarcely any Luxury which might [not] be produc'd that either Europe or the Indies afford, owing to the great difference of Climate 31/32

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wine. Yet were they perfectly acquainted with the use of grafting, and constantly practisd it on their chestnut trees, by which means they were brought to bear sooner much than they would have done had they been allowd to remain unimprovd. 25/32 #cOOK250

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#OTD 13th Sep 1768 - #SirJosephBanks' Journal: This morn about 11 the product boat (as it is calld by English Sailors) which is the boat from the oficers of health who must give leave before any ships crew can land, came on board, and we immediately 1/32 #Cook230

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means bring all the fruit of a vineyard to be of one sort, tho before the vine which it producd had been spoild by different sorts of bad ones which were nevertheless sufferd to grow, and taken as much care of as the best, because they added to the quantity of the 24/32