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.' |
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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 |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | New Zealand |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
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 |
Record ID: | 9931 | |
Source - | ||
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/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9931, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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. |
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