Captain James Cook, The World's Explorer. (2008). Retrieved from http://www.cptcook.com/
We leave Batavia, but unfortunately we now have people sick with malaria and dysentery after waiting on land for twelve weeks.
Crew: seven have died, forty are sick, other crew are now weak.
Soon another twenty three men die.
Finally on 10 July, 1771 we can see the land of Southern England.
It takes us two more days to reach land. Hooray, the great journey has ended. What an amazing experience, a great achievement to sail where others have not been before. I will always remember this journey. I wonder if Australia is the only large continent in the Southern Pacific. We will find out after another great journey into the huge, unknown oceans of the South.
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