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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=081474900-27032007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>About the "publishing mixup": It could easily be just that.
If you read the preface, the whole process of production of the book was a long
history of confusion and recriminations among Banks, Parkinson's brother
Stanfield, and Dr Joseph Fothergill over custody of poor Sydney's effects,
collections and manuscripts. Vocabularies in Parkinson's possession copied from
earlier voyagers could have been included by mistake with those actually
collected by him. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=081474900-27032007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>However, Parkinson mentions both people from Ceram and
"Negroes from Madagascar" as among the many ethnic groups present at
Batavia during his stay. It is at least conceivable that he might have collected
these lists from people he met there. The Gambia numerals are a little harder to
account for.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=081474900-27032007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Ross Clark</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> an-lang-bounces@anu.edu.au
[mailto:an-lang-bounces@anu.edu.au] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Richard
Parker<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:46 a.m.<BR><B>To:</B>
An-lang@anu.edu.au<BR><B>Subject:</B> [An-lang] Sydney Parkinson's Savu
list<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>I tried to make sense of Parkinson's Sumatra wordlist (because, to my
untutored </DIV>
<DIV>eye, it looked so strange), but had to give up.<BR><A
href="http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/parkinson/239.html">http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/parkinson/239.html</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I have a transcription of whatever I gleaned in Excel chart form, which
I'll be </DIV>
<DIV>happy to send to anyone who would like it, and could make better sense of
it than </DIV>
<DIV>I did.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There seems to have been a publishing mixup:<BR>1 page (247) is
headed:<BR>NUMERATION of the Negroes on the River GAMBIA in AFRICA.<BR>Another
(242):<BR>A VOCABULARY of the LANGUAGE spoken by the People of the Island
MADAGASCAR.<BR>another (241) has:<BR>NUMERATION of the Natives of CERAM, an
island in the EAST-INDIES</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Parkinson died at sea from dysentery contracted at Princes Island, Sunda
Strait, </DIV>
<DIV>on the way to Cape Town, in early 1771. His journal was published by his
brother, Stanfield, in 1773.<BR> </DIV>
<DIV>Since, so far as I am aware, Parkinson never visited the Gambia, or
Madagascar, or </DIV>
<DIV>Ceram, or Anjenga, on the coast of Malabar, where he listed 'High Malay'(p
236) it </DIV>
<DIV>would seem that his brother added extra wordlists that Sydney had collected
</DIV>
<DIV>somewhere, without being able to understand their significance. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>He spent 13 days on Princes Island, but passed most of his time,
fruitlessly, </DIV>
<DIV>trying to buy food: Quote: "Mr. Banks replied, that he supposed it was
because </DIV>
<DIV>they found a deficiency of turtle, of which there not being enough to
supply one </DIV>
<DIV>ship, many could not be expected. To supply this defect, he advised his
Majesty to </DIV>
<DIV>breed cattle, buffaloes, and sheep, a measure which he did not seem much
inclined </DIV>
<DIV>to adopt." (In other words, he thought the great English botanist was as
mad as a </DIV>
<DIV>hatter - he was probably dead right).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>regards</DIV>
<DIV>Richard Parker<BR>Siargao Island, The Philippines. </DIV>
<DIV>My website at <A
href="http://www.coconutstudio.com">www.coconutstudio.com</A> is about the
island and its people, coastal early humans, fishing, coconuts, bananas
and whatever took my fancy at the time.</DIV>
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