'extraordinary affair happnd to Mr Orton my Clerk'

Captain Cook Hotel, Botany

Read Saturday May 19 to May 26. On Wednesday May 23 Cook writes - "Last night in the Middle watch a very extraordinary affair happend to Mr Orton my Clerk, he having been drinking in the Evening, some Malicious person or persons in the Ship took the advantage of his being drunk and cut off all the cloaths from off his back, not being satisfied with this they some time after went into his Cabbin and cut off a part of both his Ears as he lay asleep in his bed." Orton suspects Magra as he has previously been heard to say "if it was not for the law he would murder him" and he is punished but Cook is unable to find the culprit. (Midshipman Saunders jumps ship at Batavia on June 14)Parkinson notes that the Captain offers a reward of 15 guineas for information

They observe many sharks, fish and birds. Banks appears slightly disinterested, as though he feels he has seen all before, though notes the Boobie. At Indian Head see a grampus - a whale? Nautical term - to blow a grampus - a person given to huffing and puffin. At Bustard Bay a "bustard" is shot and served at the table - which was according to Banks "not only good but plentiful". A bush turkey? 17lbs.

Sighting of a guanica ? possibly think this is like a reddish sheep like creature. Observations about the tides and opening of the brandy and orange juice prepared by Mr Hume, which goes 'ropey'- forming glutinous or viscid or sticky and stringy. At this point they are constantly being led by the chanting of the sounding. According to Parkin they are sailing themselves into a cul-de-sac.
At the Captain Cook Hotel at Botany Bay all that is available is hot pies.

I wonder what can be heard as they chant the soundings of the lead line?
Stephen and Tom have both eaten bush turkey. What were the crew eating while the Captain Banks and his gentlemen ate the "bustard"?

"we saw two of the most beautiful rainbows my eyes ever beheld"

Parkinson in Parkin

James Cook community garden, tower block, 200 Pitt St, Waterloo.A hill shaped like the crown of a hat. Cook The wind and weather "made all sneer again" when a squall of wind puts strain on spars and rigging.
The journey along the coast north seems reasonably uneventful from May 10-20. Passing from Botany Bay to the Sunshine Coast. Observed along the coast are different land formations - the Three Brothers, Glasshouse Mountains and the islands of Stradbroke. All the way they are followed by many "smooks". Suggested that these fires were being used to send information of their journey.
Again Green observes of the "Indians" that "not one was observed to stop and look upon the ship, entirely unmoved by such a remarkable object the ship must be."

Banks notes porpoises - May 12 and turtles - May 16. Since Botany Bay Parkinson has made some 94 sketches of the specimans collected there. Nicolas Thomas in "Discoveries" refers to Banks' journal where he laments the death of Parkinson, as being a loss related to his drafting skills. Many mentions of a "beautiful spotted water snake". Green, Banks.
Places are named and unnamed Smoky Cape, Mt Warning and Point Danger. Moreton/Morton are named and changed Glasshouse Bay now called Moreton Bay.(After Lord Morton president of the Royal Society. Note spelling differences)
Cook - May 18 "not knowing but which way to sail".

A frustrum a portion or fragment of anything material or immaterial.

'commanding us to go away or daring us to single combat'

Hickes in Parkin. Reading the Beaglehole's abridged Journal May 2-9. Every encounter with the "Indians" is met with resistance or disregard. Banks - " intent on their own employment and not at all regarding us". Pickersgill - "always made signals for us to be gone." and "the inhabitants are so shy we had no intercourse with them".


The shield in the British Museum - at the end of the Enlightenment Room, Main Floor. See Helen's comments. (May 9, 2006)
The naming of Botany Bay sometime around May 6. Initially Stingray Harbour, because of the many stingrays, weighing up to 336lbs (Parkinson) Changed to Botanists' Bay and later Botany Bay. Revised and reviewed through the Logbooks. Perhaps the name was changed after May 6 as the sailors were made sick by eating the stingray.

Banks lays out some 200 quires in order to collect and dry his specimens. Quire - parchment or paper doubled as a form of eight leaves. Unbound in sheets. Can also refer to a pamphlet or book, a short poem, treatise, might be contained in a quire. (quair, queare)

A yawl a small boat with four or six oars, is used to explore the bay. Smaller than a pinnace, a small light vessel generally two masted and schooner rigged. The Endeavour used both.
Through the use of a seine the men catch leatherjacket. Seine, a fishing net designed to hang vertical in the water, the ends being drawn to inclose the fish. There is much description of the largeness of the oysters, mussels and abundance of food in the area. Parkin notes that now the predominant plant in the area is a petro chemical one.

Sutherland the poulterer

Two of the nativesof New Holland, Advancing to Combat
(attributed to Parkinson)

Read from April 24 - May 2 the Journal
Previously the water jet is sighted.
Banks describing the landsacape from the boat " resembled a lean cow, long hair and scraggy hips. There are sightings of 'smook' which Banks supposes to be for cooking a 'plentiful, breakfast', while Parkinson thinks this smoke ate signals to them. it is now considered that the smoke was signalling along the coast. Cook attempts make contact on shore with the inhabitants. His overtures are rejected and he fires 'some small shotte' which causes the defendant to take up a shield.
Advancing on the indigenous inhabitants to find children hiding behind a shield in a hut containing spears, most of which appeared to be for fishing.
Banks 'we thought it no improper measure to take away all the lances which we could find about the house. Amount in number to forty or fifty.'
In return the party left behind beads and trinkets which they later found untouched.

The shield used for protection is now in the Enlightenment Room, in the British Museum.









Torby Sutherland the poulterer was buried near the watering place haveing died of consumption, and Cook named the Bay after him - later changed, but it remains the Sutherland Shire.

Wednesday May 3, 2006

Captain Cook Hotel, Botany Rd (2006)
This mural is based on the painting from 1902 by E.Phillips Fox, Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, 1770

Collected the Australia Unite CD (ABC classics)

Captain Cook's March and Procession of the Natives from Omai or a Trip Around the World (With Captain Cook) William Shield 1785

Tambourin from La mort du Capitaine Cook
Jen-Baptiste Rochefort 1788

Endeavour Lines arrived. Cook's Spring Water now on sale.

Cook Project Tuesday May 2, 2006

Captain Cook Hotel 1914 Moore Park Rd

Reading Cook's Journal

March 31 to April 22 1770- Travelling north along the coast from Point Hicks. Saw five people on the beach on April 22. Porpoises and jets of water. Several small 'smoaks' in the distance. Compass navigation variations.

What time frame was being used? Did they have clocks based on time in London? Is time contained to the ship?

Sydney
Received memorabilia from 1970 Bi-centennial from Lisa together with her school project on Captain Cook.