Forrest, Thomas, 1729?-1802?

A 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 ... Thomas Forrest ; to which is added A vocabulary of the Magindano tongue. Second edition, with an index. (London : Printed by G. Scott and sold by J. Robson, 1780)

Thomas Forrest was employed by the East India Company. His voyage of discovery to New Guinea, through the Indonesian Archipelago from 1774 to 1776 was undertaken in the Tartar, a small locally-built boat of only ten tons, with a crew of two English officers and eighteen Malays.

The book is open at a plate showing “A Magindano marriage”. This was an account of a Muslim wedding ceremony on the island of Mindanao

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