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IOR/L/MAR/A/V
- Record Id:
- 040-001104331
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-001104326
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0001a4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100084620049.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MAR/A/V
- Title:
- Dragon: Journal, William Finch and John Hearne, Factors, Vol. 5
- Scope & Content:
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Journal of the East India Company ship, Red Dragon (Captain William Keeling), kept by John Hearne and William Finche. The journal covers the ship's voyage from England to Sierra Leona [Sierra Leone], Madagascar, and Zokatora [Socotra]. The ship's passage from Zokatora to Bantam [Banten] is not covered by the journal. Dates of landing are as follows: 15 April 1607, Plymouth; 6 August 1607, Sierra Leona; 18 December 1607, Saldania [Saldanha]; 19 February 1608, St Augustine Bay, Madagascar; 21 April 1608, Zokatora.
The journal consists of almost daily entries with information such as course, winds, weather, navigational data, land sightings, and other general remarks. When the ship is at anchor the entries tend to be longer, with details of geography, people encountered, trade, and other miscellaneous information. The margin contains names of the deceased and, written in a different hand and probably made a later date, notes on the main text. Throughout the volume there are small pen sketches of islands and coastlines observed on the voyage (folios 6, 8, 16, 19, 23, 24, 25).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001104325
036-001104326
040-001104331 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MAR : Marine Department Records
IOR/L/MAR/A : Ships' Journals
IOR/L/MAR/A/V : Dragon: Journal, William Finch and John Hearne, Factors, Vol. 5 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001104325[0001]/036-001104326[0005]/040-001104331
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/MAR
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (45 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0001a4
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1607
- End Date:
- 1608
- Date Range:
- 8 Mar 1607-19 Jun 1608
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 47; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 34-46, which have not been digitised.
- Former External References:
- Vol. 5
- Arrangement:
- The journal entries are recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear.
- Publications:
- A full transcription of the journal can be found in: Richmond Barbour, The Third Voyage Journals: Writing and Performance in the London East India Company, 1607-10 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp 155-233.
- Exhibitions:
- Shakespeare in Ten Acts, British Library, London, 15 April 2016 - 6 September 2016
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Hearn and Finch's journal from the voyage of the Red Dragon. Exhibited: Shakespeare in Ten Acts, British Library, London, 15 April 2016 - 6 September 2016.