Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan: Including an account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other islands; and illustrated with thirty copperplates. Performed in the Tartar galley, belonging to the Honourable East India company, during the years 1774, 1775, and 1776, by Captain Thomas Forrest. To which is added, a vocabulary of the Magindano tongue.

Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan: Including an account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other islands; and illustrated with thirty copperplates. Performed in the Tartar galley, belonging to the Honourable East India company, during the years 1774, 1775, and 1776, by Captain Thomas Forrest. To which is added, a vocabulary of the Magindano tongue.

DS601 .F67

1779

Thomas Forrest was among the first to colonize Balambangan on the eastern tip of Java in 1770. Beginning in 1774 he worked to extend the British East India Company's sources of trade to New Guinea. He and two English officers, with a crew of 18 Malays, conducted a voyage of exploration that pushed as far as Geelvink Bay in western New Guinea (present-day Papua). The numerous maps and coastal profiles in this publication testify to the detailed observations that Forrest made. His descriptions of different ethnic groups contributed to ethnic stereotyping that continues in Indonesia today.

388 pages

Asia - Southeast Asia Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library

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