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Title
Log on board His Majesty's sloop Discovery, 28 March 1776 - 5 July 1778, kept by Captain Charles Clerke
Creator
Charles Clerke, 1741-1779
Call number
SAFE/A 559
Level of description
fonds
Date

28 March 1776 - 5 July 1778
Type of material
Textual Records, Manuscript Cartographic Materials
Reference code
1102927
Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 479
Physical Description
0.05 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Charles Clerke was enlisted as captain of HMS Discovery and Cook's second-in-command for the third Pacific voyage (1776-1780), on an expedition to search for the North West Passage. Cook departed in HMS Resolution on 13 July 1776. Clerke's departure in HMS Discovery was delayed for three weeks because of his detention for debt in the King's Bench Prison. The two ships met at the Cape of Good Hope and continued the voyage together. They sailed to Cape Town, Kerguelen Island in the southern Indian Ocean, Adventure Bay in Van Diemen’s Land, and Queen Charlotte Sound in New Zealand. They then revisited the Friendly and Society Islands. Sailing northwards, Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and reached the North American coast in March 1778.

References:
National Library of Australia. James Cook and his voyages, https://www.nla.gov.au (accessed 6 April 2018)
State Library of New South Wales. SAFE/Banks Papers/Series 11 (Safe 1/457)
Scope and Content
This log book and journal charts Cook's Third Pacific voyage in search for the Northwest Passage, and is numbered from pages 1-344, with some blank pages in between. The logbook begins on 28th March 1776 with remarks on the Resolution, Deptford, Gallions, Long Reach, Plymouth Sound, England to the Cape of Good Hope and Christmas Harbour. It continues with notes from Kerguelen Island and a map of the Island of Desolation detailing Christmas Harbour and Port Palliser on page 85.

It contains notes on the coast of Van Diemens Land on pages 99-107 and remarks from Ships Cove Charlotte's Sound, New Zealand, 'Whatdew', 'Harveys Island', 'Palmaslons Island' to Friendly Isles, with a pencil sketch on page 167. From the Friendly Isles it continues to 'Oaitapeak Bay', 'Otahila in Mattavia Bay', 'Tahrow Harbour', 'Imaio or Moraah' with map, 'Hucheima in Owhare Harbour' to the Society Islands. 'From the Society Islands to the Northward and at an Island' [with a map], among a cluster of Islands and An account of these Island which Captain Cook named Sandwich Isles in Honour of that Earl' pages 201-253. The journal then continues to West Coast of North America, King Georges Sound with 'some of the words of their language' and maps on pages 272-333, Samgoonoother and 'a sketch of Samgoonoother Bay' on page 341, and then on to Western Coast of North America from pages 342-344.
Description source

Title from item and label inside cover
Information transferred from Manuscripts Index Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2013-2014
Attributions / conjectures

This appears to be a copy of Clerke's original journal, probably by the ship's clerk, as the handwriting, on comparison with letters of Clerke in the possession of the Mitchell Library SAFE/Banks Papers/Series 11 (Safe 1/457), does not appear to be his. Mitchell Librarians Room -- Taken from label inside cover
Name
Discovery (ship : Captain = Charles Clerke)
Subject
Ship captains--Great Britain.
Cook, James, 1728-1779--Travel.
Pacific Ocean--Discovery and exploration--British.
Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--British.
Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration.
Voyages and travels--18th century.
Place
Kerguelen Islands
Hawaii
Society Islands
Tonga
Northwest coast of North America
Queen Charlotte Sound (N.Z.)
Tasmania
New Zealand
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