Diary of a voyage London to Melbourne to Newcastle, New South Wales to San Francisco in Suberb, Captain Berridge (170p.), 12 February 1883-02 October 1883

Component identifier:: Item B
Content Summary:: Details of: Boarding ship; other passengers; weather; service held on poop; ceremony of flogging the Dead Horse; fancy-dress ball; ceremonies of Crossing the Line; catching sharks; entertainments - theatricals, concerts; arrival at St. Kilda; excursions at St. Kilda; concert at Town Hall; trotting races; ship chartered to take coal from Newcastle to San Francisco; description of Newcastle ... 'Christchurch Cathedral is a very primitive building, and now being pulled down for the new Cathedral to be built'; visit to Warratah Fruit Farm; ball; football match 'most of the Newcastle team are very big young men'; visit to Sydney in Maitland ... 'the town seemed specially attractive after Newcastle'; visits to Manly, Milson's Point, Coogee Bay, by steamer to Parramatta; sailing to Newcastle on Morpeth (Saloon ticket tipped in); taking on coal 'very dusty and unpleasant'; gift of dingo 'we hope to tame it'; voyage to San Francisco; weather; services in the saloon.
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