Letters from Captains, Surnames C. Includes letter from Captain James Cook

Author/creator Cook, James author.
Format Electronic
PublicationMarlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Description1 online resource
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.exploration.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/TNA_ADM_1_1609
Subjects
Cook, James, 1728-1779--Correspondence.
Ships--Equipment and supplies.

Other author/creatorCarteret, Philip, author.
Other author/creatorWallis, Captain Samuel, author.
Other author/creatorCampbell, William, author.
Other author/creatorCornwallis, William, author.
Other author/creatorCollins, Richard, author.
Other author/creatorCampbell, John author.
Other author/creatorCummins, James, author.
Other author/creatorClevland, Archibald, author.
Other author/creatorCollier, George, author.
Other author/creatorGranston, James, author.
Other author/creatorCornerwall, Thomas, author.
Other author/creatorCornish, Samuel, author.
Other author/creatorChinnery, St John, author.
Other author/creatorCarteret, Philip, author.
Other author/creatorCaldrell, Benjamin, author.
Other author/creatorChads, James author.
Other author/creatorCollingwood, Thomas, author.
Other author/creatorCapenter, Robert, author.
Other author/creatorChaplen, James, author.
Other author/creatorCarey, John, author.
Other author/creatorCorner, John, author.
Other author/creatorCleveland, Thomas, author.
Other author/creatorCunningham, James, author.
Other author/creatorClements, Michael, author.
Other author/creatorCrosby, Phillips, author.
Other author/creatorCarkett, Robert, author.
Other author/creatorChapman, John, author.
Other author/creatorCauldrrell, Edward, author.
Other author/creatorCotton, Rowland, author.
Other author/creatorClarker, Peter, author.
Other author/creatorClarker, John, author.
Other author/creatorClerke, John, author.
Other author/creatorAdam Matthew Digital (Firm) digitiser.
Summary Description: Includes Cook's report from Batavia, folios 42-177. Weekly account of the condition of the Endeavour. Acknowledgments of orders. Preparing for voyages, for example requesting a surgeon's assistant, requesting more guns (cannons) for the Endeavour (1768) and requests for astronomical equipment (1768). Also includes Phillip Carteret letters which describe the conditions aboard the Swallow during the second circumnavigation as part of the company of the Dolphin (commanded by Wallis). Mentions scurvy and its preventions.
General noteAMDigital Reference: ADM 1/1609.
Original versionReproduction of: Letters from Captains, Surnames C. Includes letter from Captain James Cook 1764-1771.
Location of originalThe National Archives, UK
Copyright noteThe National Archives, UK
LanguageText in English, French.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource (viewed on May 28, 2018).

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