Log of H.M.S. Comus

Component identifier:: Item (b)
Content Summary:: Details of voyage; Tristan da Cunha; Cape Town; Crozet Group; searching for ship wrecked sailors - leaving provisions on shore, building huts; Christmas Harbour - tended graves of seamen; 'these islands are overrun by rabbits'; St. Paul's Island - found shipwrecked French fishermen; Straits of Sunda; Batavia - 'a very sickly place'; Singapore and Hong Kong; Japan; Amoy and China coast; Vladivostock, 'well fortified'; Singapore; Labuan; Borneo; settlement of British North Borneo Company to mine area; Sulu Islands - Sultan 'told our Captain if the Queen would drive the Spaniards off the island she could have any one of them or more if she wished'; Singapore; Pellew Islands; burnt down villages on Babelthaup Island - 'we punished the natives of the Island for plundering a schooner which got wrecked on a coral reef'; orders for Pacific Station; Esquimalt; San Francisco Station to embark Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise; sailing coasts of Peru and Chile; disturbances between rebel forces at Guayoquil; voyage home.
Processing information:: M2834

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Location of this collection:: National Library of Australia

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia