Jean Roux Journal du voyage fait sur le vaisseau du Roi Le Mascarin, commandé par M. Marion,...en faisant la découverte des Terres Australes, passant à la Nouvelle Hollande, à la Nouvelle Zélande, etc., 18 October 1771 - 7 May 1773, being a fair copy probably made by the French Admiralty, [between 1773 and 1776]

A complete account by Lieutenant Jean Roux of the voyage of the Mascarin commanded by Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, beginning with the departure from the Isle de France on 18 October 1771 and continuing through to their return in May 1773. The sixty-four page manuscript journal is written in a secretarial hand.

It details events of the voyage but also contains valuable ethnographic and nautical information. Seven pages of the journal are devoted to Van Diemen’s Land (‘Terre de Diemen’) and Roux provides detailed ethnographic descriptions. As with many European voyages of discovery of this time, Dufresne’s time in Van Diemen’s Land was not without incident, and this account is particularly rich in its documentation of violent encounters. There are also notable descriptions of the native wildlife of Van Diemen’s Land. The account of New Zealand occupies approximately forty-three pages of the journal and features rich descriptions of the landscape and Maori people. Again, of particular interest is the recounting of violent encounters, including a detailed description of the 'Massacre de M. Marion'.

Jean Roux Journal du voyage fait sur le vaisseau du Roi Le Mascarin, commandé par M. Marion,...en fa...

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