Pierre Bernard Milius voyage aux Terres Australes, October 1800-March 1804

MAV/FM4/2233
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fonds

October 1800-March 1804

934763

1 microfilm reel of textual records - positive

a. Notes on the MS. and drawings compiled by Phyllis Mander Jones, February 1964. Typescript

b. MS. containing the narrative of P. B. Milius, on the Naturaliste, October 1800-18 May 1802 when he was landed sick in Sydney. He describes the Western Australian coast, the aborigines, Timor and Tasmania. He sailed from Sydney on 22 July 1802 on the American ship Arthur for China, leaving China on 2 January 1803 on the French ship La Diane. At the Ile de France he was appointed to command of the Geographe, 28 September 1803, after which he returned to Lorient, 25 May 1804. The narrative gives descriptions of places, natives and natural history. The MS. also contains a French-Malay vocabulary, a Kaffir-French-Dutch vocabulary and a French translation of a Dutch account of a voyage to New Guinea by the sloop Waligen, 1663. The MS. is written in two hands. A portrait, probably of Milius, at beginning of MS.

c. Volume containing drawings collected by Milius and consisting of pencil and watercolour drawings by Milius, N. M. Petit made on the voyage to Australia, and by Etienne Denisse, who sailed with Milius to Antilles in 1814

French, English

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Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room at 4-84B -

Once in the possession of Shand Kydd, Esq., Milong, N.S.W. Filmed in the National Library of Australia, October 1964. The original journal is now in the Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, Western Australia.

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (4-84B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011