Subject	Australia–Description and travel
	Discovery and exploration–French
	Voyages and travels
	Aboriginal Australians–History
	Explorers
	Sydney (N.S.W.)
	Western Australia
	Tasmania
	Dutch East Indies
	Shipping
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Milius, Pierre Bernard
	Mander-Jones, Phyllis
	Denisse, Ettienne
	Petit, Nicolas-Martin
Creator	Milius, Pierre Bernard
Current Holder	State Library of New South Wales
Period Of Reference	1800-10/1804-03
Date	1800-10-01
Series Number	MAV/FM4/2233
Item Number	nM7lRyVY
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	Approval for reproduction required: Not to be reproduced without permission of the owner
Country Of Origin	Australia
Language	French
	English
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.
Physical Format	Manuscripts
	Drawing
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/3VVZF5MG/
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/IV8Q7ETF/
Date Accessed	2022-08-11