sentences:  He went to the new Swan River settlement in Western Australia in 1829, and then in January 1833 joined a whaler bound for Timor.After visits to the Philippines and Singapore, he arrived at Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in May 1834, remaining there until his death, probably in 1854.He compiled his 'Journal of a rambler', an account of his life from 1817 to 1834, in Ceylon about 1835.