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Title
Extracts from log-book of HMS Dolphin, 20 June-27 July 1767 with 'Remarks made at Georges Island', typescript copy, January 1936
Call number
DLMSQ 389
Level of description
fonds
Date

January 1936
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
944377
Physical Description
1 folder of textual material (41 p.) - typescript copy - 36 cm.
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Note on cover in Sir William Dixson's hand regarding provenance
Scope and Content
a. Original log-book (32 pages). Extract covers visit to Tahiti, which Wallis named King George the Third's Island, including account by John Gore, mate, of an expedition into the interior of Tahiti

b.'Remarks made at Georges Island' (9 pages). Description of natives and their manners and customs
Description source

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.
General note

Original Log-books of voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin 1767 in Wallis' hand are in the Mitchell Library

Transferred from DLSPENCER 179
Creator/Author/Artist
Gore, John, d. 1790
Name
Dolphin (Ship)
Subject
Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
Logbooks.
Tahiti--Discovery and exploration--British.
Tahiti--Social life and customs.
Place
Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island).

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