Off Cape Horn
First and Latter parts, fresh Gales and Squally, with flying Showers of rain and Hail; the Middle, strong Gales with heavy Squalls and showers of rain. At 8 p.m. took 2nd Reef Topsails, at 6 a.m. Close reefd the Foretopsails and took in the Mizen Topsl, and at 10 set it again and let the reef out of the Fore top-sails. Wind, West Northerly; course South-West; distance, 79 miles; latitude 59 degrees 0 minutes South, longitude 72 degrees 48 minutes West.
Joseph Banks Journal
Wind still Foul and swell continued; today at noon lat. 59.00.
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Launched in 1764 as the merchant collier 'Earl of Pembroke', the ship was purchased in 1768 by the Royal Navy for £2,300, renamed 'Endeavour', and refitted for Cook’s expedition to view the transit of Venus from Tahiti, and then to look for the Southern Continent. This expedition was to turn into Cook's first circumnavigation of the globe.
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