The eastern seas, or, Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832-33-34 ... / by George Windsor Earl
- Bib ID:
- 896167
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Earl, George Windsor, -1865
- Description:
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- London : Wm. H. Allen, 1837
- xii, 461 pages : 4 maps ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Appendices incl. observations on Australia and on Aborigines; p.436; About 1000 Bugis from Macassar collect trapang in northern Australia annually; p.442-446; Settlements at Melville Island, 1824 and Raffles Bay, 1827 - subsequent abondonment, clashes with Aborigines; Desirability of northern settlement; reasons against making Port Essington a penal establishment; p.454-456; Views of the Aborigines of the Wellington Valley, N.S.W., about the inland sea quoted from Dr. Henderson and W.H. Breton; similar views of Swan River Aborigines, information from Mr. Moore.
- Notes:
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- National Library of Australia's FC F2255 (FC1) copy bound in boards covered with grey green paper, with paper label on spine.
- National Library of Australia's FC F2255 (FC2) copy bound in dark green, covers and spine embossed with gilt lettering on the spine.
- National Library of Australia's FC F2255 (FC3) copy bound in dark green, covers and spine embossed, gilt lettering on the spine, yellow endpapers and inscription on last page.
- Maps in all of the National Library of Australia's FC F2255 copies are bound in different locations within each copy.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 2255
- Subject:
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- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Animals - Invertebrates - Crustacea and molluscs - Beche-de-mer / Trepang
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Australia -- Description and travel -- To 1850
- Southeast Asia -- Description and travel
- Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions
- Swan River (SW WA SH50-14)
- Northern New South Wales (N NSW SH55, SH56)
- Yermalner / Melville Island (NT SC52-16)
- Indonesia
- Port Essington (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
- Raffles Bay / Fort Wellington (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Earl, George Windsor, -1865 Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago in 1832-33-34
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1865
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1837
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