Mahroot’s Vocabulary 1798 [sic, K. Smith 2003]. This vocabulary was collected in October 1789 from Mahroot at ’Frenchman’s Gardens’, that is La Perouse on the north shore of Botany Bay, by an unknown diarist (probably the ship’s surgeon, Benjamin Bowen Carter) aboard the American trading ship Ann and Hope, which spent three days there taking on wood and water. Anon. Log of Ann and Hope 1798-1799, Rhode Island Historical Society, New England Microfilming Project, Providence, Rhode Island. Copied from Microfilm PMB 769, pp. 80-80a, Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. [80] [Botany Bay, Sunday 21 October 1798 Their language is extremely harsh & guttural, the letter r appears to abound in their words; which they roll out with great volubility. Maroot furnished me with several which I took down as nearly as they could be expressed by the English alphabet Transcribed by Keith V. Smith, December 2001