• Title
  Oswald W.B. Brierly - miscellaneous notes mainly on Louisiade Archipelago and Tahiti, ca. 1841-1843, 1849-1850
• Call number
  A 549
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1841-1843, 1849-1850
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Drawings
• Reference code
  423876
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 1143 (A 549)
  
• Physical Description
  1 volume - 0.05 Meters
  Textual Records - (manuscript)
  Drawings
  
• Scope and Content
  10 July - 7 Aug. 1850 ; H.M.S. Meander. Notes and letters written by Brierly on Tahiti and Eimeo Island; encounters with vessels; and weather conditions.
  10 Jan. & 23 Apr. 1843; Wanderer. Notes on journey from Twofold Bay to Van Diemen's Land and return from Hobart; life at Twofold Bay and the Bramble's arrival.
  2 Jun. 1849; Notes on the Captain's [Owen Stanley?] death and funeral, at the Isles Du Chateau, Louisiade Archipelago.
  26 Jun. - 27 Sep. 1849; [H.M.S. Maeander]. Journal entries and notes on river visit and mangroves; canoes; marine life; animals and vegetation; weather and daily activities; interactions with Indigenous people; sailing along the Bay of Islands, Bruinui Island, and Duparri Island; Bramble anchored near mainland of New Guinea
  [1842?]; [Wanderer?]. Journey after "crossed the line" [i.e. equator] including weather conditions; other vessels encountered; customs and landscapes of places visited such as city of Sebastian, Rio de Janerio, Tristan d'Acunha, Cape Pigeon, Melbourne, and Twofold Bay; and party of Englishmen botanising and sketching.
  Inserted between this account are sketches of Boa Viagson; various sailing ships [one dated 8 Feb. 1842, one dated 23 May 1841]; gallery; Governor Glass of Tristan d'Acunha; Native of Twofold Bay / O.W.B. Sept. 2nd 1843 [p.24]; Kalbundra Boat Steerer [p.29]; and Toby's Blind Father [p.33 with faded inscription beneath image].
  Jul. 1850; "Tahiti Journal" [in 6 numbered parts]. General notes on events, travel, trade, native words, scenery, livestock, guns on forts, news
• General note
  
  At the front of this volume are copies of biographical notes on O.W Brierly.
  This volume was probably compiled by the State Library of NSW and bound at an unknown date. It comprises accumulated notes on various types and sized papers as well as several numbering sequences.
  Notes are made in pen and pencil.
  Some pages bear watermark, "Moinier's 1849" and "Moinier's Patent 1848".
  D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824086
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Embossed on spine, "Biographical Sketch and Journal"
• Name
  Maeander (Ship)
  Wanderer (yacht)
  
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--History.
  Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  New South Wales--Description and travel--To 1850.
  Tahiti--Description and travel.
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Place
  Louisiade Archipelago (Papua New Guinea)
  New Guinea
  Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island).
  Twofold Bay (N.S.W.)
  
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