• Title
  Item 1: 'A Log of the proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Providence on a second Voyage to the South Sea Under the command of Captain William Bligh, to carry the Breadfruit Plant from the Society Islands to the West Indies, written by himself', volume 1
• Call number
  SAFE/A 564/1 (Safe 1/407)
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  17 July 1791-19 July 1792
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1027062
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 volume of textual material (403 pp.) - half bound in calf and buckram, gold blocked spine, manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  Personal log mainly in Bligh's hand. The log begins with introductory remarks about the failure of the Bounty voyage and the reasons for repeating the voyage; the procuring of two vessels, HMS Providence and the tender Assistant; the commission to command the Providence; the recommendation of Lieutenant Nathaniel Portlock as Captain of the Assistant; descriptions of the two vessels and the ships' complement including marines and two gardeners appointed by Sir Joseph Banks; fitting out the ships at Sheerness and then the voyage to Spithead. The log entries begin on 17 July 1791 at Spithead and cover the expedition from sailing on 3 August 1791 to the end of the plant collection in Matavai Bay, Otaheite (Tahiti) on 18 July 1792. Records descriptions of ports of call - Tenerife (28 August-2 September 1791), Capetown (7 November-23 December 1791) and Adventure Bay (9-24 February 1792); aspects of the anthropology of native peoples especially Otaheiteans (Tahitians); subsequent histories of the Bounty mutineers including those taken on board HMS Pandora; taking command of the Matilda's crew, together with a list of those Bligh took with him and the names of those deserting.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D20716/a8023.html
• General note
  
  Personal log mainly in Bligh's hand with pencil corrections. The entry titled 'Remarks at the Cape of Good Hope', pp. 116-119 is in another hand.
  Microfilm copy available at CY 347.
  Volume rebound in Mitchell Library, December 1931.
  Digital order no: Album ID : 1030884
• Name
  Providence (Ship)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3153773

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