Volume 1

Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood, R.N., in Torres Strait, New Guinea and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the year 1842-1846: together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java / By J. Bette Jukes.

  • Jukes, J. Beete (Joseph Beete), 1811-1869.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood, R.N., in Torres Strait, New Guinea and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the year 1842-1846: together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java / By J. Bette Jukes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In 2 vols. 8vo. with numerous plates, some coloured, price 36s. EXCURSIONS, ADVENTURES, AND FIELD SPORTS IN CEYLON 5 Its Commercial and Military Importance, and numerous advantages to the British Emigrant. BY LIEUT.-COLONEL JAMES CAMPBELL, Late of the 45th and 50th Regiments, and for many years Commandant of the Districts of Galle, and the Seven Korles, and Judicial Agent of Government. 5 ‘*< There is continual spring and harvest there.” ‘¢To those who feel pleasure in perusing the history of perilous adventures and moving incidents, met and mastered by cool, daring, and unshaken courage, these volumes will form a treat of no ordinary kind. The ground which our Author has chosen is his own, and on it he is without a rival: his ‘ Excursions’ and ‘ Field Sports’ are for their frequency and daring almost unparalleled.”—-Atlas. “These two volumes are full of interesting matter.”—-Morning Herald. ‘¢ We never wish to take up a pleasanter, more fresh spirited production than this of Colonel Campbell’s.”— Naval and Military Gazette. “ The book is to be heartily commended to lovers of lively anecdote and good natural description.”—Havaminer. ‘<We have to thank the Colonel for a very entertaining book on Ceylon. The work possesses the invaluable character both of a long residence in it on the part of the writer, and the very best means of observation attainable by a British resident.” 3 Foreign and Colonial Review. In One Volume, 8vo. with Maps, price 10s. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY of AMERICA by the NORTHMEN IN THE TENTH CENTURY, WITH Notices of the early Settlements of the Irish in the Western Hemisphere, By NORTH LUDLOW BEAMISH, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Member of the Royal Danish Society of Northern Antiquaries, author of the “ History of the German Legion,” &c. “ This interesting publication, the fruit of great literary labour, and extensive research, clearly shews that the eastern coast of North America was discovered and colonized by the Northmen more than five hundred years before the reputed discovery of Columbus. These facts rest upon the authority of antient Icelandic MSS. preserved in the Royal and University Library of Copenhagen, and now, for the first time, trans- lated and made public.” — Preface. This publication forms an indispensable introduction to the celebrated work of Dr. Robertson, who appears to have been totally unacquainted with the early discove- ries of the Northmen.