King, Phillip Parker, 1827: PORT JACKSON WORD LIST Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the Years 1818 and 1822. By Captain Phillip P. King, R.N., F.R.S., F.I.S., and Member of Thb Royal Asiatic Society of London'. With An Appendix, Containing Various Subjects Relating to Hydrography and Natural History. In two volumes, Illustrated by Plates. Charts, and Wood-Cuts. Vol. II. London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street. MDCCCXXVII. pp. 632-635:is a table of languages: Vol. II. Appendix, pp 632-637 contains a word list of 8 regions of Australia including Port Jackson and Port Macquarie. "Caledon Bay, Gulf of Carpentaria (From Capt. Flinders) "Endeavour River, N.E. Coast. (Partly from Capt. Cook and Mr. Forster) "King George the Third's Sound, S. W. Coast. "Port Jackson "Burrah Burrah Tribe. [90 miles west of Port Jackson] (From Mr. Scott.) "Limestone Creek. [140 miles west of Port Jackson] (From Mr. Oxley.) "Port Macquarie [168 miles north of Port Jackson] (From Mr. Hunter.) "Macquarie Harbour, V.D. Land. This list supplied by Jim Smith, August 2004. ---------- Keith Smith wrote: FYI - The vocabulary printed by PP King in his book was based on a manuscript by Allan Cunningham c1818. He was the botanist on board Lady Nelson. I think the MS reference was A1752, Mitchell Library, Sydney. --------------- David Nash wrote: ‘A 1752 is indeed the call number of 'Allan Cunningham - Miscellaneous papers, 1826, 1831-1833', http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=431542, but c1818 would be in 'Allan Cunningham - Papers [M692], 1814-1839' http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=432406 (Call Number MAV / FM4 / 3101) and indeed there the relevant item in this catalogue listing would seem to be: " 4). Draft entitled "Original MS of appendix to P.P. King's 'Survey' ... and dated "New So Wales July 1822". " ------------------------- JS LANGUAGE LIST LOCATION: Word List folder A-L ------------ BIOGRAPHY EXTRACT FROM WIKIPEDIA Admiral Phillip Parker King, FRS, RN (13 December 1791-26 February 1856) ... King was born on Norfolk Island, to Philip Gidley King .... ... and made four voyages between December 1817 and April 1822. ============ EXTRACT FROM AUST DICT BIOG ONLINE <http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020053b.htm> [1: 1817-18] The 84-ton cutter Mermaid was bought for £2000 and the expedition sailed from Sydney on 22 December with a complement of nineteen including Allan Cunningham, John Septimus Roe and the Aboriginal Bungaree. By way of King George Sound they reached North West Cape where the survey began. ... From February until June 1818 the expedition surveyed the coast as far as Van Diemen's Gulf and had many meetings with Aboriginals and Malay proas. In June the Mermaid visited Timor and then returned to Sydney the way she had come, arriving on 29 July. [2: 1818-19] Next December and January King surveyed the recently discovered Macquarie Harbour in Van Diemen's Land and sailed in May 1819 for Torres Strait. He took John Oxley as far as the Hastings River, and went on to survey the coast between Cape Wessel and Admiralty Gulf. He returned to Sydney on 12 January 1820. [3: 1820] The Mermaid sailed north on 14 June 1820. At Bowen she ran aground and suffered much damage. Surveys were made between Admiralty Gulf and Brunswick Sound on the north-west coast, but in September the ship began to leak badly. She was careened and ten days were spent repairing her. King then left the coast and sailed to Port Jackson where, after a narrow escape from wreck off Botany Bay, he arrived on 9 December. [4: 1821-22] King made his fourth and final survey in northern Australia in the Bathurst, 170 tons, which carried a complement of thirty-three, not counting a girl who had stowed away for love of the bos'n; in place of Bungaree King took another Aboriginal, Bundell. The Bathurst sailed on 26 May 1821 from Sydney by way of Torres Strait to the north-west coast. After a visit to Mauritius for rest and refreshment the Bathurst resumed the survey of the west coast. King arrived back in Sydney in April 1822. ... [1826-30] In May 1826 he sailed in command of H.M.S. Adventure, with H.M.S. Beagle in company, to chart the coasts of Peru, Chile and Patagonia. This arduous task lasted until 1830. Among King's subordinates were John Stokes, John Wickham and Owen Stanley. There were narrow escapes from shipwreck and the two commanders were under great strain. In August 1828 the captain of the Beagle shot himself.