Voyage of the Acheron, 17 January 1848-January 1849

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File 23A-B

Content Summary:

Manuscript of proposed book describing the voyage of Acheron to Wellington,17 January 1848-January 1848.

Subjects include: Admiralty's decision to make survey of New Zealand; leaving Plymouth; Madeira; fruit on sale at Funchal; English in Madeira; Rio de Janeiro harbour; visit to Museum; splendour of the church; Botanic Garden; slave trade at Rio, notes by Mr Hamilton; Cape Town; other ships in harbour; produce of Cape Town; St Paul's Island; Princess Royal Harbour; the settlement at Albany; 'a native paddled alongside - he wore a most foul and greasy mantle of kangaroo hide'; state of the Aborigines near the settlement 'demoralised by intercourse with whalers and escaped convicts'; 'carroberry' and feast; Auckland; market day; Mrs Selwyn's school for native girls; the Indigenous Australians show great aptitude for the acquirement of knowledge; taboos; schemes for civilising the natives; Wellington; earthquake of October 1848.

(2 parts, 114p., pagination erratic)

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M3053

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