Diary of Captain Cook Available Online

This writeup is dedicated to my friend KB, who rarely e-mails me without tossing around a few "Arrrs" and "Avasts". The National Library of Australia has digitized the Endeavour Journal and made it available online at http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.ms-ms1-t-cd . It's a ship's diary from Captain James Cook.

The diary is presented in twenty thumbnails of scanned pages at a time. Click on a thumbnail and get a scan of the page -- there are over 700 pages available. You can zoom in, but some of the pages are easier to read than others. There has been no attempt to "clean up" the pages -- they're as they are with every smudge and scratch out. I couldn't see any transcripts (if I missed 'em, someone please point 'em out) so expect to do some squinting when you visit this site.

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