kangooroo

The Guugu-Yimidhirr represents [N], so Cook wrote it down as 'kangooroo', but the digraph was later read as the more English-sounding [Ng].

languagehat.com: ESKIMO WORDS FOR SNOW. 2004

The orthography of the word was not settled in his time; Cook wrote "kangooroo" and

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903

The orthography of the word was not settled in his time; Cook wrote “kangooroo” and “kanguru,” but Hawkesworth, who edited his voyages, made it “kangaroo.”

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

Besides, as it seems very improbable that the Van Diemen's Land inhabitants should have ever lost the use of canoes or sailing vessels, if they had been originally conveyed thither by sea, we must necessarily admit that they, as well as the _kangooroo_ itself, have been stragglers by land from the more northern parts of the country.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

The small stick, rudely pointed, which one of them carried in his hand, was the only thing we saw that required any mechanical exertion, if we except the fixing on the feet of some of them pieces of _kangooroo_ skin, tied with thongs; though it could not be learnt whether these were in use as shoes, or only to defend some sore.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

Some of our present group wore, loose, round their necks, three or four folds of small cord, made of the fur of some animal; and others of them had a narrow slip of the kangooroo skin tied round their ankles.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

The _kangooroo_, another animal found farther northward in New Holland, as described in the same voyage, without all doubt also inhabits here, as the natives we met with had some pieces of their skins; and we several times saw animals, though indistinctly, run from the thickets when we walked in the woods, which, from the size, could be no other.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

In fact a Dutch explorer, Pelsart, had described a similar animal in 1629, but modern Dutch, like other European languages, has a word (kangoeroe) capturing in its own spelling system a word brought to Europe by Cook and his associates, especially Joseph Banks, in the form kangooroo or kanguru.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983