Log on board His Majesty's sloop Discovery, 28 March 1776 - 5 July 1778, kept by Captain Charles Clerke

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.

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