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After working briefly in the hospital at Madras, Henry Robert Oswald, junior, was posted to the 13th Native Infantry Regiment.

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The log of the ‘Charles Grant’ concerns a voyage from London to Bombay, January-May 1815, carrying troops, cargo, and passengers. It is followed (folio 67 verso) by the log of the ‘Humayoon Shah’, carrying cargo and passengers from Bombay to Canton and back, June 1815-February 1816.

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The entries sometimes complement and sometimes repeat those in MS.2896. They are usually of a more formal character, giving merely weather, position, and distance covered, and many appear to have been copied from other logs; e.g., those describing the passage of the Phoenix to St Helena (pages 33-40), at which island William Scott first joined her.

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The papers consist of:

(i) Extracts from the log of the East India Company ship 'Exeter', 1803-1804, including a description of an engagement with the French (folio 1);

(ii) Embroidery patterns, 19th century (folio 13);

(iii) Latin hexameters deploring the British attitude to war in the late 18th century (folio 17);

(iv) Miscellaneous papers, 1836-1907, undated (folio 29).

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Logs contain information on stores and provisions taken onboard and provide details on locations, weather, sails employed, repairs, singals given and received and other ships encountered.

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Logs contain information on stores and provisions taken onboard and provide details on locations, weather, sails employed, repairs, singals given and received and other ships encountered.

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Logs contain information on stores and provisions taken onboard and provide details on locations, weather, sails employed, repairs, singals given and received and other ships encountered.

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Records the last mission of HMS Muros under the command of Captain Archibald Duff up to and including the wreck of the Muros on a reef off of Cuba.

Letter book of HMS President during its service in the War of 1812.

Scope and Contents The expedition, which was intended to explore the possibilities of trade between China and the North-West coast of America and the setting up of a factory and military post in America, was privately sponsored in the first instance by 'some merchants at Bombay', and Walker was 'induced by curiosity' to join the expedition.The two vessels involved, the Captain Cook and the Experiment, proceeded by way of the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines to the North-West coast of America,...