Oswald W.B. Brierly - Journal on H.M.S. Maeander. South Seas and South America, May to Sept. 1850

A 513

item

1850-1851

Textual Records, Drawings

423765

Microfilm : CY 104 (A 513)

Textual Records - (manuscript) 1 volume - 0.03 Meters
Drawings

[front cover]
2 - 28 May, 19 Jun. - 11 Jul., 21 Aug. - 12 Sep. 1850, 20 Oct., 30 Dec. 1851; Port Jackson to San Isidro (?)
Journal describes places of anchor including Norfolk Island (penal colony), Cook Straits, Wellington, Point Nicholson, Tongataboo [i.e. Tongatabu], Tahiti, Valparisio; daily activities; sea and weather conditions; map of North Island of New Zealand; mode of painting water quickly in water colours [page 104]; notes and lists of drawings [added to volume, dated 20 Oct.]; sketches of landscapes.
[back cover]
Entrance to Cook Straits. Description of Cook Straits, Port Nicholson, Auckland, and the Bay of Islands
20 Jun. [1850] ; Tongataboo [i.e. Tongatabu]. Details of Island including population, courts of justice, produce, and hierarchy of power

The volume is reversible, as it has been used from the front and back.
Some pages are blank.
The journal has been rebound into new covers at an unknown date.
"D.S. Mitchell" signature on p.2

Handwritten on page 4, "Journal Commencing May 2 1850 / Ending-"
A non-contemporaneous label on original cover, "H.M.S. Meander South Seas and S. America (M.S. only) O.W. Brierly, 1850"