Fragments of holograph log of Captain James Cook on HMS Resolution (4 ff.), 28 November 1778-17 January 1779

 
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File Egerton MS 2177B
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The fragments, written on very large sheets of papers, is not in the usual tabular form, but the entries are very brief and mostly record winds, bearings and position. There are a few references to encounters with the Hawaiian Islanders. The log is accompanied by the original instructions from the Admiralty to Cook (6 July 1776), signed by Lord Sandwich, Lord Spencer and Palliser and extracts from the instructions to Lieutenant Richard Pickersgill, commander of the brig HMS Lyon (14 May 1776) and Lieut. Walter Young, commander of the brig Lyon (12 March 1777). In 1776 and 1777 the Lyon was sent to Baffin Bay in Canada to search for the north-west passage and possibly link up with Cook, but the expeditions were failures.
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