Astronomical observations, rough calculations and notes; many pages are inverted.
The volume also includes a number of rough sketches [RGO 14/63: 232v; RGO 14/63: 244v; and RGO 14/63: 377r]; a draft letter [to Lieutenant Hergest] written in English but partly using Greek script concerning a dispute about going on shore near Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, and Hergest’s accusations that Gooch ‘stole out of the ship’ without speaking to him first [RGO 14/63: 311r-312r]; translations of Polynesian words [RGO 14/63: 349v]; notes on the observation of an eclipse off the Marquesas Islands [RGO 14/63: 350v-351v]; a copy of rules for finding the longitude by the ship’s watches [RGO 14/63: 353r-353v]; a list of names of crew members of the Daedalus [RGO 14/63: 372r]; mathematical instructions [RGO 14/63: 382v-384v]; and computations of the rates of Mr Arnold’s watches No. 14 [RGO 14/63: 415r-423v] and No. 176 [RGO 14/63: 424r-431r].