Early Tasmania

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James Backhouse Walker. Early Tasmania

Early Tasmania

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. JAMES BACKHOUSE WALKER, F.R.G.S

THE FRENCH IN VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, AND THE FIRST SETTLEMENT. AT THE DERWENT

PREFATORY NOTE

I. THE FRENCH IN VAN DIEMEN'S LAND

II. THE FIRST SETTLEMENT AT THE DERWENT

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

THE ENGLISH AT THE DERWENT, AND THE RISDON SETTLEMENT

I. THE ENGLISH AT THE DERWENT

II. THE RISDON SETTLEMENT

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA

THE FOUNDING OF HOBART, BY. LIEUT.-GOVERNOR COLLINS

I. THE CHOICE OF SULLIVAN'S COVE

2. THE FOUNDING OF HOBART

APPENDIX

THE EXPEDITION UNDER LIEUTENANT- GOVERNOR COLLINS, IN 1803-4

1. THE ORIGIN OF THE EXPEDITION AND THE VOYAGE TO PORT PHILLIP

2. THE PORT PHILLIP FAILURE

THE DISCOVERY AND OCCUPATION OF PORT DALRYMPLE

I. THE DISCOVERY

II. THE OCCUPATION OF THE TAMAR

THE DEPORTATION OF THE NORFOLK ISLANDERS TO THE DERWENT IN 1808

I. THE SETTLEMENT OF NORFOLK ISLAND

II. THE DEPORTATION TO THE DERWENT

THE DISCOVERY OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, IN 1642; WITH NOTES ON THE LOCALITIES MENTIONED IN TASMAN'S JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGE

ABEL JANSZOON TASMAN: HIS LIFE AND VOYAGES

INTRODUCTION

I. YOUTH AND EARLY VOYAGES, 1603-1638

II. VOYAGES IN JAPAN SEAS, &c., 1639-1642

III. THE GREAT DISCOVERY VOYAGES TO THE SOUTHLAND, 1642-1644

IV. TASMAN'S LATER YEARS, 1644-1659

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

APPENDIX. THE DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA

NOTES ON THE ABORIGINES OF TASMANIA, EXTRACTED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON WALKER, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES B. WALKER, F.R.G.S

NOTES FROM MR. WALKER'S JOURNAL

SPECIMENS OF THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY THE ABORIGINES OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND:— TWO POPULAR SONGS.— TRANSLATION OF GENESIS, CHAP. I.— ABORIGINAL NAMES OF MEN AND WOMEN

SOME NOTES ON THE TRIBAL DIVISIONS OF THE ABORIGINES OF TASMANIA

1. SOUTHERN TRIBES

2. WESTERN TRIBES

3. CENTRAL TRIBES

4. NORTHERN AND NORTH-EASTERN TRIBES

THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES

THE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE TERRA AUSTRALIS AND NEW HOLLAND

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James Backhouse Walker

Published by Good Press, 2022

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I have searched in vain hitherto in printed accounts for the correct date of Bowen's settlement. The dates given vary from June to August, but I think we may henceforth consider it settled, on the authority of official documents, that the birthday of Tasmania was Tuesday, the 7th day of September, 1803.

Here I must pause. On a future occasion I hope to be able to draw further on the store of material which has been provided by the wise liberality of the Government, and to give some particulars of the history of Bowen's abortive colony at Risdon, and of Collins' settlement at Sullivan's Cove.

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