Within Australia
All orders ship freewithin Australia
Rest of the World
Orders over A$300
ship free worldwide
C1814
View of Malay Road from Pobassoo’s Island.
Artist:
William Westall (1781 - 1850)
Whilst surveying the north western tip of the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1803 on the Investigator, Matthew Flinders encountered a fleet of six praus (a traditional outrigger boat used in south east Asia) led by the chief Pobassoo He conversed … Read Full Description
Sold
Free Shipping
See Shipping page for Terms & Conditions
Details
Full Title:
View of Malay Road from Pobassoo’s Island.
Date:
C1814
Artist:
William Westall (1781 - 1850)
Engraver:
Samuel Middiman
(1750 –
1831)
Condition:
Repaired tear from lower sheet edge affecting the first letter in the title, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Image Size:
225mm
x 160mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1814
Description:
Whilst surveying the north western tip of the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1803 on the Investigator, Matthew Flinders encountered a fleet of six praus (a traditional outrigger boat used in south east Asia) led by the chief Pobassoo He conversed with him through his Indonesian cook and was told that Pobassoo had previously made six to seven voyages from Macassar to Australia’s northern coast to harvest trepang and that he had been one of the first to travel there. Flinders recounted that Pobassoo ‘carried two small guns, obtained from the Dutch, others had only muskets … every Malay wears a cress or dagger’. This annual harvest and the proximity of the Portuguese colony of Timor has led to the theory that Europeans may have made contact with Australia prior to that of the Dutch landing near present day Weipa in the Duyfken in 1606.
