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Record 9932

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The men in these boats were dressed much as they are represented in Tasman's figure, that is, two corners of the cloth they wore were passed over their shoulders and fastened to the rest of it just below their breasts; but few or none had feathers in their hair.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: 15 Jan 1770
Country: New Zealand
Time: n/a
Place: specific address: Queen Charlotte Sound, 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

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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Abel Jansen Tasman
Title: [unknown]
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 9932  
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: 210
  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. 210, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9932, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Date of birth stated to be 2 February 1743 (o.s.) in book, this has been corrected to new style date. I have been unable to identify the title of the book. http://history-nz.org/discovery1.html gives a quote from something that gives the description but does not say where the quote comes from.

 

 

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