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Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :Trading place at Anamokka or New Rotterdam Isles [May 1777]
- Date
- 1777
- Reference
- A-264-008-1
- Description
Shows Cook's sailors bartering with Tongans in a coconut grove, with other trees and two thatched dwellings to the right. On the left, a sailor is looking through Cook's sextant, which is on top of a barrel. There is a stream with more coconut trees to the left. A Marine is standing in the centre of a group of seated Tongans guarding a hut assigned to Cook and his men.
Joppien / Smith number for this drawing is 3.40
Ellis's text states: "The next day, (May 3d) the astronomers tents, instruments, &c were got on shore, together with the coopers, the empty casks, &c and the marines. The chief of the island furnished us with a large hut for our reception on shore, in the front of which the market was held; a line was drawn between the natives and us, at some distance from the hut, to prevent their crowding too near, and none of them were permitted to come within it. We were abundantly supplied with hogs, fowls, yams, plantains, breadfruit and coconuts, and short fared sumptiously every day". (Ellis, 1782, I, 59-60).
Other Titles - Anamooka, Nomuka [Friendly Islands or Tonga].
Inscriptions: Recto - top right - title in ink, including the statement "See Ellis's Voyage vol., 1, p. 59."
Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil on laid paper 192 x 310 mm
Provenance: Astley family; sold 1974.
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- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :[A collection of drawings made by William Ellis on H.M.S. Discovery and Resolution during Captain Cook's third voyage to the Pacific 1776-1780] / Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :Trading place at Anamokka ... [and] Amatafoa ... [Friendly Islands, Tonga, May 1777]
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Drawings, Pencil on laid paper 192 x 310 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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