| Evidence: | 'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making any material observations upon it; so that all we can say is, that it was the southernmost land we saw, and does not answer badly to the description of Cape Horn given by the French, who place it upon an island, and say that it is two bluff headlands (vide Histoire des Navigat. aux terres australes, tom i. p. 356).' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 25 Jan 1769 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: At sea - in the South Atlantic off Tierra del Fuego | ||||||||||
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| 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: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Charles De Brosses |
| Title: | Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, contenant ce que l'on sait des moeurs et des productions des contr?es d?couvertes jusqu'? ce jour |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 9924 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Banks | |
| Editor: | Joseph Hooker | |
| Title: | Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B. 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: | 62 | |
| Additional comments: | Published by MacMillan & Co. Ltd |
| Citation: | Joseph Banks, Joseph Hooker (ed.), Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B. 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. 62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9924, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Date of birth corrected from that given in the book (2 February 1743 O.S.) Given the precise page reference I have assumed that the book was available to him while at sea. The page number is not an editorial addition. |
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