Captain Thomas. Field log of HEIC Royal George (130p.), c.1759

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Log of voyage to India and back.Filmed selectively from back of book.

[Remarks on Navigation], c.1759. (130p.)

Includes: Note re discovery of Tyral rocks in 1718 by Dutch ship...lyes 30 leagues West from Coast of Holland Nova'.

Directions for sailing through Straits of Malacca.

Directions for sailing from England to China, 'it would not be improper to make the Coast of Hollanda Nova'.

Abstract of a journal of the ship Walpole from the coast of New Holland to the Ladroon Islands in China, 1759. Includes notes on birds seen near coast, surroundings taken.

Remarks of Hector making the Coast of New Holland, July 1759.

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