This manuscript is a copy (in the hand of William Webster Hoare) of the original "Woolner (Djerimanga) vocabulary recorded by John William Ogilvie Bennett at Escape Cliffs in 1864-65. It was probably added to during the Goyder expedition to the vicinity of Port Darwin in early 1869. Bennett was speared to death on 28 May 1869, but shortly before this date his friend W.W. Hoare made two fair copies (Hoare was surgeon assistant on the Goyder expedition and his papers are held in the State Library of South Australia). The other copy is catalogued among the papers of William Patrick Auld (in the SLSA) and contains an appended list of the suspects of Bennett's murder. This manuscript copy was brought south to Adelaide. and was published as a pamphlet in in 1869 by W.C. Cox, Adelaide. The red discritics were presumably added by an Adelaide editor and follow the directions for pronunciations which Bennett gives on the first page. N.B. Tindale ( "Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, 1974 page 366) sighted the original Bennett vocabulary. It is preserved among G. Goyder's papers ("Notebood no. 36 in GRG 35/256/11) in the States Record Office. The original also includes a small map, hand-drawn by Bennett, containing locations of the place names listed on the last page of this copy. A pencilled note on this manuscript explains that it was found among the effects of Mr H.C. Talbot, and was presented in 1940 to the S.A. Museum by a Mr. R.O. Segerland (Lands Department). Tindale received the manuscript , and in 1999 it was found by Philip Jones among Tindale's papers in the compactus in the East Wing crypt. Jones undertook research on the manuscript, which led him to write about Bennett's and Hoare's involvement with the Finniss and Goyder expeditions, culminating in Bennett's spearing - and published in 2004 in his book "Ochre and Rust".