Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in and Around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, with a Study of the Narratives of All Explorers by Sea and Land in the Light of Modern Charting, Many Original Or Hitherto Unpublished Documents, Thirty-nine Illustrations, and Sixteen Specially Prepared Maps, כרך 1Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, 1921 |
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ADMIRALTY CHART Aernem afterwards anchored Australia bank Basilisk Batavia blacks Bligh boat BOOBY ISLAND Bramble Brothers CAMP canoes Cape York Peninsula Captain Carron Carstenszoon's cattle coast Coen COEN RIVER course CREEK crew crossed December depôt diary discovery distance Dutch Duyfken east EINASLEIGH Embley Endeavour Strait ESCAPE RIVER expedition explorers facto fathoms Flinders FLINDERS RIVER followed FRANK JARDINE GILBERT RIVER goldfield Guinea Gulf of Carpentaria horses inlet Jackey Jackey-Jackey Jukes July June Kennedy Kennedy's land latitude Leichhardt Lieutenant LYND miles Mitchell Moresby morning mouth Murray Island named narrative NASSAU NATIVES noon NORMAN RIVER northward November observed party Pascoe passage PERA HEAD Pera's Port PORT ESSINGTON PRINCE OF WALES probably Queensland Quiros Rattlesnake reached reef returned REVIER sailed scrub September ship Somerset southward spears STATEN RIVER station survey Sydney Tasman Thursday Island Torres Strait trees VALLACK voyage westward wind
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עמוד 231 - They went away then a little way, and came back again, throwing spears all around more than they did before: very large spears. I pulled out the spear at once from Mr. Kennedy's back, and cut out the jag with Mr. Kennedy's knife: then Mr. Kennedy got his gun and snapped, but the gun would not go off. The blacks sneaked all along by the trees, and speared Mr. Kennedy again in the right leg above the knee a little, and I got speared over the eye, and the blacks were now throwing their spears all ways,...
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עמוד 231 - Then a good many blackfellows came behind in the scrub, and threw plenty of spears, and hit Mr Kennedy in the back first. Mr Kennedy said to me, "Oh! Jackey, Jackey! shoot 'em, shoot 'em.
עמוד 231 - I gave him paper and pencil, and he tried to write, and he then fell back and died, and I caught him as he fell back and held him, and I then turned round myself and cried : I was crying a good while until I got well ; that was...
עמוד 9 - Australis Terra' is the most southern of all lands, and is separated from New Guinea by a narrow strait. Its shores are hitherto but little known, since after one voyage and another, that route has been deserted, and seldom is the country visited unless when sailors are driven there by storms.
עמוד 231 - Don't look far away,' as I thought he would be frightened. I asked him often, ' Are you well now ? ' and he said, ' I don't care for the spear- wound in my leg, Jacky ; but for the other two spear- wounds in my side and back,' and said,
עמוד 231 - Mr Kennedy, are you going to leave me?" and he said, "Yes, my boy, I am going to leave you;" he said, "I am very bad, Jackey; you take the books, Jackey, to the captain, but not the big ones, the Governor will give anything for them." I then tied up the papers; he then said, "Jackey, give me paper and I will write.
עמוד 87 - I had in the Name of His Majesty taken possession of several places upon this Coast, I now once More hoisted English Colours, and in the Name of His Majesty King George the Third took possession of the whole Eastern coast from the above Lat. down to this place by the Name of New South Wales...
עמוד 228 - ... we stopped at a little creek and it came on raining, and Costigan shot himself; in putting his saddle under the tarpaulin, a string caught the trigger and the ball went in under the right arm and came out at his back under the shoulder; we went on this morning all of us, and stopped at another creek in the evening, and the next morning we killed a horse named Browney...
עמוד 230 - Kennedy, and said to him there is plenty of blackfellows now; this was in the middle of the night; Mr Kennedy told me to get my gun ready; the blacks did not know where we slept, as we did not make a fire; we both sat up all night; after this, daylight came, and I fetched the horses and saddled them; then we went on a good way up the river, and then we sat down a little while, and we saw three...