Log and journal kept on HMS Beagle and HMS Nelson, [June] 1881 - May 1884

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Series 30/5
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On Australian station.

(145p.)

Details of course, weather, bearings.

Journal describes: voyage to Australia in HMS Nelson, 1881; arrival at Fremantle 'The place not up to much.….the people very hospitable'; visit to Perth; voyage to Albany and Sydney; activities at Sydney; Hobart; steam trials; joins Beagle 4 April 1882; sailing to Blanchard Island; description of natives of New Britain; Duke of York group; Admiralty Group; sighting 'blackbirding' boats; fauna; Cooktown; Percy Islands; Sydney; movements of other ships in harbour; rejoins Nelson 19 March 1883; Queen's Birthday celebrations; voyage to Fiji; Norfolk Island - description of Pitcairn islanders 'very dark……but their features are English as a rule' activities in Fiji, 'nobody at all sorry to leave Suva'; high death rate of imported labourers; visit to New Hebrides; Sandwich Islands; Sydney.

Note on other ships.

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