A scene on board His Majesty’s ship ‘Deal Castle’, Ca - PowerPoint Presentation

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A scene on board His Majesty’s ship ‘Deal Castle’, Captain J. Cumming, in a voyage from the West Indies in the year 1775

Date made1804

Object referencePAJ0773

CreditNational Maritime MuseumSlide2

Letter from William Gooch to his parents (extract describing seasickness)

Date made1791

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: 51rCreditCambridge University

Library

Within 7 miles of Dover. The tide running one way and a brisk wind blowing the other, the motion

of the

ship was very much increased, and so was my sickness, so that during in the course of the morning I was, five or six times, obliged to heave a little ballast overboard. Before the ship brought to, I found my sickness much abated, but I found my strength so much exhausted that I was glad to get to bed. I did so & Lieutenant

Hergest

(with the same kindness he has always shown me) attended me himself as a nurse.Slide3

Daedalus

Date made1791

Object referenceMS/MM/6/48: 59r

CreditCambridge University LibrarySlide4

William Gooch’s journal (extract describing weevils)

Date made1791

Object referenceMS/MM/6/48: 165r

CreditCambridge University Library

This morning I got no breakfast at noon, I got but a very poor dinner though. I was hungry, for there was neither dumplings nor soft bread, and I cannot yet reconcile myself to eating ship biscuit full of maggots and weevils. In the afternoon I got no tea, and being at want of something in the evening, I got the cook to boil me some chocolate. Luckily, he guarded the fire long enough from the sea to do it.Slide5

View of Resolution [Vaitahu] Bay in the Marquesas

Date made1774

Object referenceBHC2419

CreditNational Maritime MuseumSlide6

William Gooch’s journal (extract describing meeting

Marquesans for the first time)

Date made1792Object reference

MS/MM/6/48: 181vCreditCambridge

University Library

...two or three canoes came alongside of us, and when they came aboard, they gave us a song, clapping their hands for music. And all the time they continued upon deck, they were so noisy that we could scarcely hear each other speak. Their ears are all perforated, and when nails were given them, they put them in these holes in their ears. They tied other things (such as sea biscuit, pieces of iron hoop etc.) about their necks, with a piece of rope yarn. Their perpetual din being so troublesome that orders could not be heard by the seamen.Slide7

William Gooch’s journal (describing trading food for nails)

Date made1792

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They brought with them fish, plantains, coconuts & breadfruit, which were purchased of them with nails, and pieces of iron hoop, which they signified to us they should make tattooing instruments. The colour of the tattooed part of their skin is blue, and this colour intermixed in

various forms

, with the natural colour of their skin.Slide8

William Gooch’s journal (extract describing stealing from the Daedalus)

Date made1792

Object referenceMS/MM/6/48

: 183vCreditCambridge University Library

One of them soon found means to steal a tin pot, with which he jumped overboard, but was detected. When signs were made to him to return it, he continued to conceal it (under him) very artfully, without paying any regard to our angry looks, until a musket was produced, but at the sight of that, he returned it immediately. In Captain Cook’s first voyage a thief was shot dead here, so that they were not Strangers to the use of arms. One of them had the Impudence to snatch one of our sailor’s hats off his head, and make off with it, and the man was fool enough to say nothing.Slide9

William Gooch’s journal (extract describing

Marquesan offers of help)

Date made1792Object reference

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Cambridge

University

Library

During the few minutes we were walking on shore, the Indians, to show their civility, would not permit us to walk, without each arm being lodged on one of their shoulders, for our indulgence;

and

when we came to a piece of cragged rocky ground, they were very desirous of carrying me

on

their shoulders to spare my feet, although I had shoes, and they had none. However, I did not accept the offer. Slide10

A chief of Ohitahoo

Date made1792

Object referenceMS/MM/6/48: 182v

CreditCambridge University LibrarySlide11

William Gooch’s journal (extract describing

Marquesan haircuts and tattoos)

Date made1792

Object referenceMS/MM/6/48: 183r

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Cambridge

University

Library

...they wear their hair cut in many different forms, some having their heads shaved all over, except a round tuft at top, others with one side of their heads shaved, others shave narrow stripes across, but the forms are so very numerous, that it is impossible for me to innumerate them. They are all tattooed, some almost all over, others but little. Their natural colour is copper, though many stain themselves red. Some wear their beards long, others shave part of their faces, and others, the whole. I observed among those who first came on board, that one of them had these human teeth fixed in his beard, by way of ornament.Slide12

Omai

Date made1777

Object referencePAF6429

CreditNational Maritime MuseumSlide13

View of Part of the Island of Ulietea [Raiatea

]Date made

1773 Object referenceBHC2375

CreditNational Maritime MuseumSlide14

Captain James Cook, 1728-79

Date made1775-76

Object referenceBHC2628

CreditNational Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital CollectionSlide15

Joseph Banks

Date made1788

Object referencePAH5497

CreditNational Maritime MuseumSlide16

Map of Porto Praya Bay in the island of St.

Iago [São Tiago, Cape Verde]

Date made1772

Object referenceRGO 14/58: 4r

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Cambridge

University

Library