Author: GREGORY, EDMUND [ Government Printer]
Title: Annual Report Of British New Guinea From 1st Of July 1898 To 30th June 1899 With Appendices. .
Description: Foolscap; pp. 116; 7 of 9 sheets of map 4 mile to 1 inch; map of survey of Yodda valley via Brown river valley; appendices; missing 2 sections of large map; missing map of route taken on trip from Port Moresby to Hagari; maps have closed tears along the seams; pages are loose after removal of staples; reading copy only. Queensland, Edmund Gregory, 1900. Report given to Queensland Government includes dictionary of 5 native dialects and translation eg White cockatoo in Motu = Karai. Large scale map of 4 miles to the inch provides exact positions of rapids, villages, houses, heights of banks of river, width of river, trees, crops, camp sites to better follow the reports. Information on exploration, criminal activity, sentences, resident magistrates, missions, administrators, gold wardens and patrol officers reports. Development of hygiene and movement between goldfields, movement of vessels including the Ruby, list of imports, meteorological data. The removal of the staples holding together might have been don to facilitate the joining of the individual map sections together and as a result the maps have wear.

Keywords: new giunea government report bougainville Yodda brown river strickland river palmer Mt Hagen gold goldfields samarai woodlark sudest mambare