John Boultbee

John Boultbee ( born September 3, 1799 in Bunny, Nottinghamshire, England; † 1854 in Ceylon ) was an English whale and seal hunters.

Life

He was born as the ninth and youngest son of the living in poverty sharecropper John Boultbee and Sarah Elizabeth Lane in the county of Nottinghamshire. Even as a 16 -year-old (1816 ) drove Boultbee as sealers to Brazil, two years later (1818 ) to Barbados. In 1823 he accompanied his brother Edwin to Tasmania ( Van Diemen Land ). In 1824 he met the Tasmanian Preservation Iceland ( Furneaux Group, eastern Bass Strait, south-west of Cape Barren Iceland ) the previous convict and sealers James Munro ( 1779-1845 to ), who lived there since 1819 and until his death as "King the sealers " and official spokesman of the residents stayed there.

In the years 1825-1828 he lived and worked with other sealers in the south of New Zealand. During these tough three years, in which it usually came to war between the sealers and Māori, Boultbee documented instead was the first European language and lifestyle of Māori around the Otago Harbour. His observations, inter alia, 220 expressions of māorischen language, some lyrics and name, he wrote with berry juice instead of ink in his diary, which was published in 1986 as Journal of a Rambler. In 1827 he lived with Māori in Murihiku.

He celebrated his 34th birthday in 1833 on a ship in front of Manado ( Sulawesi, Indonesia) anchored. In 1834 he emigrated to Ceylon, where he died in 1854.