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| + | ==Timeline notes== | ||
| + | ===Part 1: chapters 1-6=== | ||
| + | December 1808: Laurence, Granby, and Tharkay venture out into Sydney fisticuffs, after "eight months aboard" (p4) the Allegiance, which left England in April 1808. Emily Roland remarks on the strangeness of summer hours "when it is almost Christmas" (p8). | ||
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| + | Bligh previously picked up in Van Diemen's Land, "a full year gone" (p16) after being deposed as governor-- retroactive travel time for "last leg" (p18)? "Eight months at sea" repeated p19. | ||
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| + | "Three subsequent weeks"(p21) after arrival in Australia = return to ongoing narrative, soon after the brawl from the first few pages. Laurence returns to the Allegiance to talk with Bligh. MacArthur comes to the barracks the next day after breakfast (p27), when the Beatrice arrives with Rankin et al. (p31). | ||
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| + | The Beatrice left England "two months after the Allegiance" (June 1808); it dumps Rankin and the others onto the Allegiance and sails away again. Jane Roland's letter says that Rankin's family has been "squalling[...] for nigh on Five Years now" (p32). Levitas' death cited as "in the year 'five" p36. | ||
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| + | Indeterminate intervals; no mention of new year? | ||
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| + | Caesar hatches and chooses Rankin (pp45-46). Caesar chows through lotsa livestock in his first week (p49). | ||
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| + | MacArthur invites Laurence to dinner and suggests the Blue Mountains expedition (p60). Tharkay and Granby agree, despite the prospect of "pickaxing through solid rock for a month in the worst heat of summer" (p62); they leave "the very next morning" (p63) w/ Caesar and his crew and "some dozen convicts" (p64). | ||
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| + | "Fifth day of surveying attempt" p69: Jonas Green bit by vermin p71, Caesar gets heatstroke p72. That evening, Tharkay talks to Laurence about smugglers p80. | ||
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| + | Day 6: we can has cows p88, egg iz gon p91. | ||
| + | --[[User:Wombat1138|Wombat1138]] 17:45, 21 August 2010 (PDT) | ||
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Does anybody have a guess who is the dragon on the cover next to Temeraire? Natli 00:27, 16 August 2010 (PDT)
Fairly certain it is Kulingile. In fact I think NN said so in the Facebook chat... YEP. Found it. http://t-lyrical.livejournal.com/130762.html -- 06:42, 16 August 2010 (PDT)
Great :D Natli 08:06, 16 August 2010 (PDT)
Timeline notes
Part 1: chapters 1-6
December 1808: Laurence, Granby, and Tharkay venture out into Sydney fisticuffs, after "eight months aboard" (p4) the Allegiance, which left England in April 1808. Emily Roland remarks on the strangeness of summer hours "when it is almost Christmas" (p8).
Bligh previously picked up in Van Diemen's Land, "a full year gone" (p16) after being deposed as governor-- retroactive travel time for "last leg" (p18)? "Eight months at sea" repeated p19.
"Three subsequent weeks"(p21) after arrival in Australia = return to ongoing narrative, soon after the brawl from the first few pages. Laurence returns to the Allegiance to talk with Bligh. MacArthur comes to the barracks the next day after breakfast (p27), when the Beatrice arrives with Rankin et al. (p31).
The Beatrice left England "two months after the Allegiance" (June 1808); it dumps Rankin and the others onto the Allegiance and sails away again. Jane Roland's letter says that Rankin's family has been "squalling[...] for nigh on Five Years now" (p32). Levitas' death cited as "in the year 'five" p36.
Indeterminate intervals; no mention of new year?
Caesar hatches and chooses Rankin (pp45-46). Caesar chows through lotsa livestock in his first week (p49).
MacArthur invites Laurence to dinner and suggests the Blue Mountains expedition (p60). Tharkay and Granby agree, despite the prospect of "pickaxing through solid rock for a month in the worst heat of summer" (p62); they leave "the very next morning" (p63) w/ Caesar and his crew and "some dozen convicts" (p64).
"Fifth day of surveying attempt" p69: Jonas Green bit by vermin p71, Caesar gets heatstroke p72. That evening, Tharkay talks to Laurence about smugglers p80.
Day 6: we can has cows p88, egg iz gon p91. --Wombat1138 17:45, 21 August 2010 (PDT)
