Miss S.A. Bray. Journal, 11 August 1864-07 November 1864

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Fonds TD 522
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Diary kept by Miss S.A. Bray during maiden voyage of City of Adelaide, Plymouth to Adelaide. (45p., photocopy, poor in places).

Subjects include: leaving England; weather; service in cabin; sighting Teneriffe; sighting other vessels; flying fish; dancing; ceremonies of crossing the line; sailors catch a shark; rough weather 'cabins are very wet…we were obliged to sit on the table and on the backs of the seats while the water was being baled out'; attending sailors' service; lunar rainbow; King George's Sound; addresses of thanks presented to Captain Bruce and Doctor Nason.

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