VOYAGE 
TO 
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 prese?its and barter. Liberal con- 
duct 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 the 
Admiralty appointing me lieutenant of His Majesty's sloop Inves- 
tigator, 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 super- 
seded, I took the command at Sheerness on the 25th of the same 
month. 
