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

Date
1800-10-01
Subject
Category
Author
Milius, Pierre Bernard
Mander-Jones, Phyllis
Denisse, Ettienne
Petit, Nicolas-Martin
Creator
Milius, Pierre Bernard
Current holder
Series number
MAV/FM4/2233
Item number
nM7lRyVY
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Request at location
Rights
Approval for reproduction required: Not to be reproduced without permission of the owner
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Language
Period of reference
1800-10 to 1804-03
Description from source
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.
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Date accessed
2022-08-11
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