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C18th engraving of a native of the Admiralty Islands (Manus Islands), New Guinea, sketched by John Hunter on his visit to the islands on the ship Waaksamheyd, a Dutch 300 ton burthen snow that was hired to transport supplies to the colony of New South Wales.,
From Hunter’s rare, “An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, With the Discoveries That Have Been Made in New South Wales and the Southern Ocean”.
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