Report on Sealers of Bass Straits, ca. 1829-1831

A 575

fonds

1829-1831 (later copy of report)

423890

Microfilm : CY 875, frames 22-35 (A 575)

1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

"Names and descriptions of persons formed residing upon the different Island in the Straits, and who have been warned to quit those Islands, as also to deliver up the native women in their possession that they my be placed at the Establishment, agreeably to the Lieutenant Governor's instructions to that effect" [page 1].
Physical descriptions of men residing on Gun Carrigae Island, Woody Island, Preservation Island, Kent's Group, Hunter's Island, Swan Island, King's Island.
List of Aboriginal woman, grouped by location found, whom Sealers held in captivity. Includes name, alias [alternative European name], and place of origin.

The identity of the scribe is unknown. The document is based on reports of G.A. Robinson.
Some pages bear watermark, "W. Collins Sons & Co.".
This document comprises 12 pages and was bound into this format at an unknown date.
D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
Copied onto preservation microfilm, Nov. 1985.

Handwritten on p.1, "As the Sealers of Bass' Straits are so often mentioned in Robinson's Official Reports, I copy the following information about them from one of these documents"