Captain Samuel Wallis: 1766-1768, Dolphin

United Kingdom	22/08/1766	Dolphin, Swallow and Prince Frederick depart from Plymouth together.
Portugal - Madeira	07/09/1766 12/09/1766	Anchored at Madeira Road to take on supplies. Set sail with a large quantity of onions (see 28/09/1766).
España	16/09/1766	Off the island of Palma in the Canaries.
Cabo Verde	23/09/1766 24/09/1766 28/09/1766	Pass Island of Bonavista. Anchored at Port Praya. The ships put to sea again and pass Terra del Fuego - the burning mountain. Wallis complains about the tainted internal air of the ship.
	19/11/1766	8:00pm: 'Saw a meteor of a very extraordinary appearance, in the NE which flew off in a horizontal line to the SW with amazing rapidity: it was near a minute in its progress, and left behind it a train of light so strong, that the deck was not less illuminated than at noon day.'
Republica Argentina	08/12/1766	Sighted the coast of Patagonia near Port Desire.
Chile	16/12/1766 28/12/1766 17/01/1767 18/01/1767 11/04/1767	Entered the Straits of Magellan. Anchored at Port Famine. Prince Frederick departs for the Falkland Islands. Dolphin and Swallow head South from Port Famine. Lost sight of the Swallow on leaving Straits of Magellan.
Polynésie Française	06/06/1767 17/06/1767 18/06/1767 26/07/1767 31/07/1767	Sights the first of several of the Tuamoto Islands. Lands on Osnaburgh Island (Mehetia) in Society group. First sight Tahiti. Leaves Tahiti. Manuae atoll, named The Scilly Islands.
Kingdom of Tonga	13/08/1767	Landed on Keppel and Boscawen's Island (Niuatoputapu & Tafahi).
Wallis et Futuna	16/08/1767	Landed on Wallis Island.
Marshall Islands	03/09/1767	Passed Rongalep and Bikini. Thought to be the Piscadone Islands.
Northern Mariana Islands	18/09/1767 19/09/1767 16/10/1767	Sighted Saipan and Tinian. Anchor at Tinian for repairs and refreshment. Set sail from Tinian.
Pilipinas	28/10/1767	Sighted Bashee Islands (Batan Islands) at the North of the Philippines.
Spratly Islands	03/11/1767 04/11/1767	Sight three of the Spratly Islands. Sights another island which Wallis calls New Island (Namyit).
Viêt Nam	07/11/1767	Sights Condone Island (Con Soon or Con Doa) off the coast of Vietnam.
Malaysia	13/11/1767	Sighted islands of Timoun (Tioman), Aros and Pesang.
Republik Indonesia	16/11/1767 30/11/1767 08/12/1767 14/12/1767 20/12/1767	Sighted Islands of Pulo Toto and Pulo Weste (Linga). Anchored at Batavia. Leaves Batavia. Anchors at Prince's Island. Leaves Prince's Island.
South Africa	30/01/1768 04/02/1768 03/03/1768	Sighted coast of South Africa. Anchored in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope. Left Table Bay.
St. Helena	16/03/1768 17/03/1768 18/03/1768	Sighted St. Helena. Anchored at Jamestown Harbour. Set sail for 'happy old England'.
Ascension Island	23/03/1768	Sighted island of Ascension but did not stop.
Portugal - Açores	24/04/1768	Sighted Cape Pico and Fyal.
United Kingdom	13/05/1768 19/05/1768 20/05/1768	Sighted the Scilly Isles (the British ones not the Polynesian ones) Wallis lands at Hastings. Dolphin came to anchor in the Downs.