• Title
  James Cook - Journal fragment, describing Tongatabu / James Cook
• Creator
  James Cook, 1728-1779
• Call number
  Safe 1/70
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  October 1773
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  448945
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 4780 (Safe 1/70)
  
• Physical Description
  0.01 metres of textual material (8 pages bound in 1 volume) - manuscript - 22 x 29 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Oct. 1773; An eight page fragment, in Cook's hand, describing Tongatabu (or Tongatapu). These pages are part of Cook's journal of the second voyage in the British Museum (Add. MSS. 27888). The two sheets of paper are numbered 72 and 73, and exactly fill a gap in the BM volume. The fragment corresponds to pages 210-217 of volume 1 of the printed journal.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Item 1124 in 'Bibliography of Captain James Cook' edited by M.K. Beddie, 2nd ed 1970.
  A related fragment describing Tongatabu, also an estray from BM Add. MSS. 27888, can be found in James Cook papers, 1768-1773 (Safe 1/83).
  A discussion of the Mitchell Library estrays from the British Museum journal can be found in 'The Journals of Captain James Cook...Resolution and Adventure', edited by J.C. Beaglehole, 1961, cxxiv.
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779--Travel.
  
• Place
  Tonga
  Tongatabu (Tonga)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20604936

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