book chapter
Run from the society to the Friendly Islands
voyage round the world, in His Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4, and 5 • 2 • Published In 1777 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-33 [Original: 159-198 ]
By: Forster, Georg.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, by a member of Captain Cook's crew in his voyage of discovery around the world, is mainly a description of a few days spent at Nomuka Island in June of 1774. The subjects covered include geography, flora, trading with the natives, behavior of the natives toward the Europeans, the collection of plant specimens, and the introduction of dogs to Nomuka.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- History
- External trade
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tongans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1773-1774
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1774
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nomuka (Rotterdam, Nomoka, Anamocka) Island, Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- By George Forster
- Because of the illegibility of the original source, the chapter has been retyped and repaginated by HRAF, but spelling peculiarities and inconsistencies have been retained in the HRAF manuscript.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 05034851
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans