December 2010
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Taking stock
It’s hard to believe I started the Tobin log five months ago. Too much stuff on my plate.
Not accounting for duplicated images, blank pages, etc., I have still to do on the Providence:
Tobin log: 132 pages Tobin narrative: 308 pages Flinders log: 187 pages
I have completed:
Bligh log: 570 pages Portlock log: 129 pages Bond log: 618 pages Tobin log: 442 pages
So, 1,759 down, 627 to...
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Tobin log
442 pages of the Tobin log completed, through December 17, 1792. They have dropped anchor at St. Helena. They are 3,733 nautical miles from Kingstown, St. Vincent’s, which will be their next stop.
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Tobin log
431 pages of the Tobin log completed, through December 6, 1792. They have passed the Cape of Good Hope and set course to the Northwest towards St. Helena in the Atlantic.
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Tobin log
405 pages of the Tobin log completed, through November 10, 1792. They are some 650 miles due east of the southern tip of Madagascar.
From Bligh’s log:
“I informed the Botanists to day that I now had it in my power to put into St. Augustin Bay if they thought it would be any way advantageous to our Plants. I had plenty of Water on Board and more than they could use before we...
