Record Number: 9931

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'He was covered with a fine cloth of a manufacture totally new to us; it was tied on exactly as represented in Mr. Dalrymple's book, p. 63; his hair was also tied in a knot on the top of his head, but there was no feather stuck in it; his complexion brown but not very dark.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

8 Oct 1769

Country:

New Zealand

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Poverty Bay, New Zealand
other location: Onboard HMS Endeavour

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Joseph Banks

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

13 Feb 1743

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Naturalist

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

New Zealand

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Alexander Dalrymple

Title:

An Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean, previous to 1764

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London 1767

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

9931

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Banks

Editor:

Joseph Hooker

Title:

Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., KB PRS During Captain Cook's first Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc.

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1896

Vol:

n/a

Page:

184

Additional Comments:

Publisher MacMillan & Co. Ltd.

Citation:

Joseph Banks, Joseph Hooker (ed.), Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., KB PRS During Captain Cook's first Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc. (London, 1896), p. 184, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=9931, accessed: 29 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Date of birth stated to be 2 February 1743 (o.s.) in book, this has been corrected to new style date. Page reference given is not an editorial addition, so Banks must have had the book in front of him when writing.