<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> <div> </div> <div><BR> </div>