"I whose ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go ..."
— James Cook

January 1, 1970

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Cook's private diary, 30 January 1774. Quoted in J. C. Beaglehole (ed.) The Journals of Captain James Cook, vol. 1 (Hakluyt Society, 1955), General Introduction. Also Diaries of Note