sketcher(?), author and surgeon, was a surgeon from Bengal, India, who visited New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land in about 1830 and travelled around the country for a year after his return, publishing Observations on the Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land at Calcutta in 1832. His account of his travels includes much natural history material and details of the Australian Aborigines, particularly the people of the Wellington district of New South Wales who led him on an expedition to a reputed inland sea ’200 miles from Wellington Valley’. Portraits of man and a woman of the tribe were included as one of the three lithographed plates in his book but these are little more convincing ethnographically than was his 'inland sea’ upon the banks of which 'animals of a large and fearful size were said to be met with, congregating in herds’. Henderson died in 1836 on an expedition to Tibet.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
