Feb
23
Flinders log
274 pages of the Flinders log completed, through February 10, 1793, where it ends.
Next up, George Tobin’s narrative. I have been doing these logbooks so long that doing a narrative will require switching several gears.
The Tobin narrative was not published until 2007, when it was published by the Chatham Publishing as Captain Bligh’s Second Chance, by Roy E. Schreiber.
However, what I’ll be putting up on Fateful Voyage will be Tobin’s narrative, not Schreiber’s book. His purpose was to publish a book for sale and he has made many changes to the original, “which would be annoying to the modern reader,” whereas my purpose is simply to make the original available.
