Scope and Contents Daily log entries, except for 21-26 December for which there is a single summarised entry. The Resolution was travelling on a course via Cape Noir to Tierra del Fuego. An entry for 20 December includes a detailed account of the observations taken by Wales on shore, and a description of Tierra del Fuego where they resupplied with wood, wild celery and plentiful wild geese (which enabled a Christmas feast to be had). Wales notes that ‘excepting the Society & Friendly Islands, Terra del...

Scope and Contents Daily log entries, covering the voyage from Tierra del Fuego to South Georgia Island, and towards the South Sandwich Islands. Three maps are included. An entry for 3 January describes Staten Land [Staten Island] of which he says ‘It did not appear to me by far so frightful as it seems to have done to the relator of Lord Anson’s voyage’. He observes that it abounded with ducks and geese, and with sea fowl such as penguins and seagulls ‘of which most of our people eat (sic) and thought very...

Scope and Contents Showing Cape Disseada [Deseada], Cape Noir, Schapenbam’s Bay, Whintband’s Bay, Nassau Bay, Success Bay, Cape Success, Port Maurice, Cape St. Vincent, Cape San Diego, Cape St. Anthony, Cape San Juan, Cape St. Bartholomew, Staten Land, New Isle, Terbalten’s Isle, [Enouts?] Isle, Barnevelt’s Isle, Hermete’s Isles, and Cape Horn. The course of the Resolution is plotted, with soundings shown in Nassau Bay. The latitude and east and west longitude from Greenwich are indicated in the border. Signed...

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These include daily observations; lunar observations; observations for the variation of the needle; observations for the error of the line of collimation and the latitude of the place; observations for the going of the clock; observations for the going of Mr Kendall’s watch; observations on the tides; and observations for the dip of the needle.