Captains' logs: Endeavour, R Pickersgill, F Wilkinson

Other author Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) digitiser.
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_51_4547
Subjects

Summary Description: The logbook for HMS Endeavour on Cook's first voyage to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun and to search for Terra Australis. Includes details of both friendly and hostile encounters with indigenous peoples and descriptions of their appearance. Details of crew members trading with the indigenous peoples and also firing their weapons at them and taking them captive on board the ship. Also includes descriptions of landscape and vegetation, and lists of place names, whether these places are a continent or an island and whether they are inhabited.
General noteAMDigital Reference: ADM 51/4547.
Original versionReproduction of: Captains' logs: Endeavour, R Pickersgill, F Wilkinson 27 May 1768 - 29 Sep 1770.
Location of originalThe National Archives, UK
Copyright noteThe National Archives, UK
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource (viewed on May 28, 2018).

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