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Title
Log and journal of HMS Resolution on Captain Cook's third voyage, on HMS Resolution, 2 January-5 September 1778, kept by James King
Creator
James King, 1750-1784
Call number
SAFE/DLMS 98
Level of description
fonds
Date

2 January - 5 September 1778
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
423490
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 volume of textual material (349 p.) - manuscript - 23 cm.
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

HMS Resolution and Discovery, under the command of Captain Charles Clerke, left England for Cook's third and final Pacific voyage (1776-1780).

Following Cook's death on 14 February 1779 in Hawaii, Clerke assumed command of the expedition. When Clerke died on 22 August 1779 from consumption, command was assumed by Lieutenant John Gore (Resolution) and James King (Discovery).
Scope and Content
The journal consists of detailed remarks recorded daily in the log's 'Observations' column which is sometimes expanded over several pages; with special sections describing places of particular interest visited, including Sandwich Islands (pages 19 - 44). King George's sound (pages 180 - 135) Sandwich Sound (pages 173 - 183) 'In the Great River' (Cook Inlet) (pages 196 - 209) and Samganoodha Harbour (Page 239 - 247). The journal includes comparative vocabularies of the languages of some Pacific islands (pages 48 - 49) and of the Nootka Indians at King George's Sound (pages 142 - 146); and tables of detailed astronomical and magnetic observations taken at various places. In his note of William Anderson's death, King gives and appreciation of the surgeon's qualities.

The Manuscript., possibly a fair copy, is neatly kept, with alterations and insertions throughout, some possibly in another hand.
Finding Aids
Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D16023/a6117.html
General note

Microfilm available at MAV/FM4/2738, frames 1 - 25
Digital order no:Album ID : 991915
Attributions / conjectures

Beaglehole says the Manuscript is 'a very neat fair copy, with some minor variations of the text of the P.R.O volumes, and incorporates the stray Nootka Sound paragraphs of Adm 55/122 in the right place.' (Hakluyt society's Journals of Captain Cook, 3 p.clxxxii.)
Name
Resolution (Ship)
Discovery (Ship : Captain = James Cook)
Subject
Cook, James, 1728-1779.
Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration.
Pacific Area--Discovery and exploration.
Voyages around the world.
Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
Cook, James, 1728-1779--Travel--Pacific Ocean.
Anderson, William, 1750-1788.
Exhibited in

Dare to know : the art and science of Pacific voyages - State Library of New South Wales (1 June - 28 November, 1998)
Dixson 60 - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2013)
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