Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustration; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1 The Assembly Orders a Rescue Mission; 2 A Commodore's Career; 3 Commissioning; 4 To Van Diemen's Land: a Change of Plan; 5 Van Diemen's Land: a Lucky Error; 6 The Admiralties: the Diversion; 7 Amboina: Disunity aboard; 8 Esperance Bay: Danger and Disappointment; 9 Van Diemen's Land again: 'the First State of Society'; 10 Tongatapu: Gaiety and Violence; 11 New Caledonia: 'this Barbarous Land'; 12 Santa Cruz, Solomons, New Guinea: the Last Surveys; 13 To Sourabaya: the Leader's End; 14 Sourabaya: in Dutch Hands
15 Going Home-or into Exile16 Retrieving the Records; 17 Successes and Failures; Epilogue; Officers, midshipmen and scientific staff; Chronology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
