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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
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Press Releases 2009
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unknown title 2009
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unknown title 2009
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For more information on Kanguru Solutions, visit their website at www. kanguru.com.
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For more information on Kanguru Solutions, visit their website at www. kanguru.com.
unknown title 2009
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For more information on Kanguru Solutions, visit their website at www. kanguru.com.
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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.
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The native people thereabouts, dark-skinned and peaceable folk who hadn’t yet been given reason to want to murder Cook’s party and feed the bodies to currawongs, explained that their name for the leaping animal was kanguru.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The native people thereabouts, dark-skinned and peaceable folk who hadn’t yet been given reason to want to murder Cook’s party and feed the bodies to currawongs, explained that their name for the leaping animal was kanguru.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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