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TERRA AUSTRALIS.
BOOK I.
Transactions from the Beginning of the Voyage to the Departure from Port Jackson.
CHAPTER I.
Appointment to the Investigator. Outfit of the ship. Instruments, books, and charts supplied, with articles for presents and barter. Liberal conduct of the Hon. East-India Company. Passage round to Spithead. The Roar sand. Instructions for the execution of the voyage. French passport, and orders in consequence. Officers and company of the Investigator, and men of science who embarked. Account of the time keepers.
On the 19th of January 1801, a commission was signed at the1801.
January. Admiralty appointing me lieutenant of His Majesty's sloop Investigator, to which the name of the ship, heretofore known as the Xenophon, was changed by this commission; and captain John Henry Martin having received orders to consider himself to be superseded, I took the command at Sheerness on the 25th of the same month.
