JARDINE'S JOURNAL—NOTES BY THE ETEXT-MAKER.

Spelling errors and typos listed below are as shown in the paper text
and have been copied into the electronic text.

FRONT MATTER

The footnote in the INTRODUCTION does not have a referent in the text—
there is no asterisk in the text. It is not clear whether the
'settlement' it refers to as having been abandoned is at Adam Bay or in
Western Australia.

P ix—'loosing' instead of 'losing'
P xi—re-placed

CHAPTER 1

There are several words in this chapter which do not conform to today's
spelling, but which appear in the paper text as copied:
p 1—faciliate
p 3—agreable
p 5—speers
p 5—Gaala Creek—(should be Galaa Creek)
p 5—discription
p 7—amunition

CHAPTER 2

P 9—amunition
P 9—earthern
P 9—cheifly
P 10—stoney
P 10—occuring
P 11—villanous
P 11—vestage
P 16—potatoe
P 16—oppossum
P 17—apparantly
P 18—despatch
P 18—amunition
p 19—muscles—probably should be 'mussels'
p 19—(about 18 miles....—no closing bracket
p 23—a cawbawn saucy—should probably be 'as cawbawn....
p 23—agressors
p 24—succeded
p 24—'where' instead of 'were'
p 24—'frighened' instead of 'frightened'
p 26—emeu
p 27—double and single quotes on "Ferguson," don't match
p 27—'spenifex' instead of 'spinifex'

CHAPTER 3
P 30—too (too days)
P 30—dilirious
P 32—carcase
p 32—indispensible
P 32—chissel
P 33—'these' should probably be 'they'
p 33—pigmy
P 34—agreably
P 34—a-head
P 35—degnified
P 36—'course' instead of 'coarse'
P 37—steadilly
P 37—abondoned
p 37—wirey
P 38—cheifly
p 38—seives
P 38—permenantly
p 39—occuring
P 40 —frightended
P 40—bythe (all one word)
P 40—gratuitious

CHAPTER 4

P 42—they (no capital on beginning of sentence)
P 43—horses (no possessive apostrophe)
P 43—varities
P 44—varities
p 44—gulley
p 46—sheild
p 48—agressor
p 49—peices
p 50—bitcher plant—(instead of pitcher plant?)
p 50—pelluced
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CHAPTER 5

p 59—'course sandstone'—should probably be 'coarse'
p 63—a-head
p 64—the latitude measurements seem to have reversed the signs for
       minutes and seconds in measuring latitude. I have spelled out the words.
p 67—'meet' instead of 'meat'
p 68—'eat' instead of 'ate'
p 69—horsmen
p 69—admonitary
p 70—Lichhardt
p 70—retreiver
p 70—mocassins

CHAPTER 6

p 72—distention
p 73—'gotting' should be 'getting'?
p 73—exhiliration

APPENDIX

p 75—weeps the stream—should be 'sweeps the stream'? or was the
       author being poetic?
p 77—SPINIGEX—should be 'Spinifex'
p 77—genuis—genus
p 77—neverthless
p 77—loosing—losing
p 78—vigilence
p 79—Thozets'—Thozet's
p 82—easly—easily
p 82—entirley
p 83—surperseded

 

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