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English: Chart of Gambier's Islands

Discovered by Capt: James Wilson
in the Ship Duff

With the track of the ship Duff, and inset of Crescent Island
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https://archive.org/stream/b28758110#page/n243/mode/2up

A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite
Author Wilson, William, Chief Mate of the Ship Duff.

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