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Date: 1840

By: Williams, Edward Marsh, 1818-1909

Reference: MS-2407

Description: Source of title - Transcribed title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (62 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (20 cm, stiff blue wraps)

Date: 1806-1897

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1949

Description: Includes diary kept by John L Hatwell during the voyage of the Devonshire to Auckland in Dec 1862-Feb 1863 (in Papers of Frank Hawtin. DD/HWN) Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 7 Aug 1849-29 Oct 1850

By: Whitby, George, active 1849-1850

Reference: qMS-2199

Description: Log of the ship "Pekin" on a voyage for the New Zealand Company from England to New Zealand and return, kept by George Whitby, Commander. The "Pekin" left England on 6 Aug 1849 carrying emigrants bound for Port Chalmers, Wellington, New Plymouth and Nelson. The log usually contains one page of text per day while the ship is at sea. The entries largely consist of navigational figures, wind directions and weather conditions, although passengers and crew members are occasionally mentioned. It includes seven pages of detailed description of and comments on the New Zealand ports visited by the "Pekin". Accompanying material - Accompanied by single sheets in Whitby's hand, including prayer, copy of letter dated 6 Jan 1850, two sheets of calculations, and a copy of the crew list (with Wyngate Manuscripts' catalogue description). Also typed transcript of entries 5 Dec 1849 & 16 Jan 1850 done by Jocelyn Chisholm, Jan 1997 Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (350 pages). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (25 cm; marbled paper on boards, in black box)

Date: 1836-1845

Reference: qMS-1080

Description: Entries begin Nov 1836 on Conway in England; describes voyage to East Indies Station via South Africa, Madras, Rangoon, King Island (Bass Strait) and Port Jackson, NSW; in Sep 1837 Conway visited whaling settlements at Kapiti and Cloudy Bay, cruised via NSW, Tasmania, Tonga and Fiji to Rangoon, 1839; entries for Hyacinth voyage 1841-1842 based in Hong Kong, then entries for Acteon in 1843. Journal includes notes on social, economic and political affairs, bearings, weather and sightings on voyages made; also comments on interaction between Maori and whalers, intermarriage, European justice and barter trade Source of title - Supplied Writer unidentified. Served on HMS Conway, transferred to Hyacinth in 1841, and then to Acteon in 1843 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 120 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (photocopy) (35 cm; blue buckram)

Date: 1865-1895

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-3045

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 8 Dec 1768-22 Jun 1770

By: Hicks, Zachary, 1739-1771

Reference: qMS-0954

Description: Log written by Hicks on the voyage of scientific discovery of the `Endeavour' to New Zealand, 1768-1771. The first page of the log contains copies of two letters by James Cook to the Admiralty relating to Cook's vessel the `Grenville' which had its rig changed in Debtford in 1764. Also three letters to Cook from the Admiralty Office, the Navy Office and the Victualling Office. At some point this page has been tipped into the log. First entry in the log is Thursday the 8th December 1768 recording the departure of the `Endeavour' from Rio Janerio. Daily entries include course position of the vessel, wind and weather conditions, bearings of the ship when at anchor, and general observations of life on deck as the ship made the trip around Cape Horne to King George Island then onto the South Pacific. Continues with the mapping of New Zealand and voyage to the eastern coastline of Australia. On 11th June 1770 the `Endeavour' ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef and eventually made its way to a river mouth (Endeavour River). Repairs were carried out over the next seven weeks. Last entry in the log is Friday 22nd June 1770. The log does not include the page containing entries for the crew's first sighting of New Zealand, October 1769. Publication - Further information regarding Hick's log is published in `The Journals of Lieutenant Cook's Officers', by James Cook. Other - Page(s) for the log entries for 14-24 January 1769, 13-18 August 1769, and 6-15 October 1769 are missing from the manuscript, either cut or torn out. See reference in `Cook Journals Vol 1, The voyage of the Endeavour', edited by J C Beaglehole, 1955. Zachary Hicks (Hickes) was a Royal Navy officer and second-in-command (second lieutenant) on Cook's 1768 voyage to New Zealand on the Endeavour. Hicks Bay in the Gisborne region is named after Zachary Hicks. The Endeavour sailed into the bay on the 31st October 1769 where they were meet by two canoes of fifty Māori each who dared the English to fight. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (134 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (33cm; cream vellum boards in navy morocco case) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Bernard Quatrich in London, in 1900, for £110