Jonathan Monkhouse - 'A Logg kept on board his Majesties Ship the Endeavour, Jas. Cooke Commander, B...
Jonathan Monkhouse - 'A Logg kept on board his Majesties Ship the Endeavour, Jas. Cooke Commander, B...
Jonathan Monkhouse - 'A Logg kept on board his Majesties Ship the Endeavour, Jas. Cooke Commander, By Jonn. Munkhouse', 27 May 1768 - 19 November 1769
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Date
27 May 1768 - 19 November 1769
Call Numbers
Safe 1/29
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Physical Description
Contents
0.04 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript
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Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Photocopy : xerox copy made from microfilm.
Microfilm : CY 157, frames 1-361 (Safe 1/29).
Finding aids
Read the transcription here: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D36540/a1452.html
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The log records nautical data including speed, course and winds, with remarks about the work of the ship and ports of call. The account begins at Debtford and includes an informative description of the fitting out of the ship. During the voyage Monkhouse remarks on events at Rio de Janeiro, Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti and New Zealand. The last pages c...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Jonathan Monkhouse - 'A Logg kept on board his Majesties Ship the Endeavour, Jas. Cooke Commander, By Jonn. Munkhouse', 27 May 1768 - 19 November 1769
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Front endpapers contain bookplate of Leicester Harmsworth and description of volume from Sotheby's sale catalogue 27 June 1923.
Item 607 in 'Bibliography of Captain James Cook' edited by M.K. Beddie, 2nd ed 1970.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823627
Contextual Information
Source
Acquired from Stevens, Son and Stiles in 1932
Administrative / Biographical history
Jonathan Monkhouse served with the navy in the West Indies before joining the Endeavour as a midshipman on 21 August 1768. His brother William Brougham Monkhouse was the ship's surgeon. When Endeavour was damaged on the Great Barrier Reef, Monkhouse took charge of fothering the hull. Monkhouse died of malaria in February 1771 after the ship left B...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
Safe 1/29
Record Identifier
Y0KDQ351
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Y0KDQ351
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Reference code
447157
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