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The Colourful Early History of the Cocos-Keeling Islands

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The Colourful Early History of the Cocos-Keeling Islands

SKU: R31 | Year: 2011 | Pages: 306

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Previously published in JMBRAS Vol. XXV Parts 4-5, No. 160, June 1953 and December 1952.

Contents

  • Documents relating to John Clunies Ross, Alexander Hare and the early history of the settlement on the Cocos-Keeling Islands, edited, with an introduction & notes, by C.A. Gibson-Hill, M.A.
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Cocos of Keeling Islands, by James Horsburgh
  • A Memorandum on the Island of Borneo, by John Clunies Ross
  • Extracts from a Journal kept by John Clunies Ross
  • The Banjermassin Outrage, a letter by James Simpson, advocate
  • New Settlement at the Keeling Island, a letter by James Horsburg
  • The Petition of John Clunies Ross to H.E. The Governor of Mauritius
  • The Memorial of John Clunies Ross to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty
  • Description of the Cocos- or Keeling-Islands, by H. van der Jagt
  • Extracts from Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Owen’s report to the Admiralty on the visit of H.M. Sloop Comet (A.A. Sandilands Cmdr) to Cocos in March-April 1830
  • Some Account of the Cocos of Keeling Islands: and of their recent Settlement, anonymous
  • First letter from John Clunies Ross to Rear-Admiral Sir T. Bladen Capel, K.C.B., not dated but apparently written between August 1835 and January 1836
  • Brief Account of … certain people whom … Alex. Hare … disembarked upon the Cocos Isles, by John Clunies Ross, not dated
  • On the formation of the oceanic islands in general, and of the coraline in particular, by J.C. Ross
  • Extracts from the account of the visit of H.M. Surveying Vessel Beagle to the islands (in April 1836), published by Charles Darwin and Cmdr. Robert Fitzroy
  • Extracts from the second letter from John Clunies Ross to Sir T. Bladen Capel, dated Trincomalee, June 1837
  • Extracts from Rear-Admiral Sir Fred L. Maitland’s report on the visit of H.M. Sloop Pelorus (Francis Harding Cmdr) to Cocos, December 1837
  • Memorandum prepared for Captain Smith (formerly of the British barque Asia); undated, but presumably written circa February 1845 (transcribed from an MS copy at Cocos, in 1941)
  • Extracts from Journal of Occurrences at the Cocos Isles by J.C. Ross, headed 12 November 1845
  • Extracts from The Singapore Free Press 26 Nov. 1857
  • Appendix
  • A. Notes on the Principal MS Sources
  • B. H.M. Vessels visiting Cocos before 1840
  • Errata
  • References (Printed Sources)

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