Letterbook, 26 November 1881-20 November 1882

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File 6

Content Summary:

Pressed copies of letters from Bridge (Espiegle, Queenstown, St Vincent, Simon's Bay, Fremantle, Albany, Adelaide, Sydney, Levuka, Suva, Penticost Island, Mallicolo, Havannah Harbour, New Hebrides, Noumea, Sydney, Ugi, York Group) to Admiralty, Commander in Chief and others reporting the proceedings of the ship.

Subjects include: voyage to Australia; birds observed at mouth of estuary of River Ouro; death of James Murphy, falling from mizen crosstrees; bringing back to Fiji the Fijian suvivors of Isabelle massacre; conveying Governor to Savu Savu Bay in Vanua Leva; coaling at Suva; voyage to New Hebrides; report of murder of two Queensland labour agents at Tanna; fugative natives of Ambryne Island stated to have been kidnapped; abduction of woman of Vate by Queensland vessel Madeline; enquiry into outrages committed by whitemen in New Hebrides [while blackbirding] alleged by Reverend Paton, Presbyterian Missionary; troubles caused to Mr Glisson by natives of Vate Island, 'an actual state of war existing between Mr Glisson and several villages of Bushmen'; Isabelle massacre; sale of firearms to natives of New Hebrides by British Subjects; trial of two seamen on Flora.

(500p., indexed, very faint in places, some torn out pages.)

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