W.F. Carslake. Private Journal on board Pearl, 18 September 1874-18 September 1875

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Visit to mission stations on a Pacific island; Fiji - social activities; talk of annexation - meeting with chiefs 'all afraid to sign'; warfare on islands; lowering of Fijian flag and hoisting of Union flag 'the Isles of Fiji have become English'; Sydney - docking at Cockatoo; social activities, trips to Parramatta by river; Portland - 'Botanical Gardens are very pretty'; kangaroo hunt; Spencers Gulf; Port Lincoln - description of area; journey inland by rail; Liverpool; Campeltown; Woolongong coach 'uncomfortable looking affair'; Mittagong, 'the Swindon of this line'; Berrima mines; uncomfortableness of coach travel; 'the Queanbeyaners think a great deal of their town'; visit to Mr Campbell's run - his family and house, shooting, riding; voyage to Rotumah Island - visit to mission station; description of island and natives 'seem to be a mixed race by their own account they come from Samoa'; Mr Fletcher the Missionary 'he has no one but the Roman Catholics to fight'; Havannah Harbour - expedition inland, cannibalism, native religion; visits to other islands in New Hebrides - descriptions of villages and native customs; Vanikoro - finding large piece of copper - Commodore identifies it with La Perouse; Santa Cruz - war-like natives; Commodore Goodenough shot by poisoned arrows; Bligh Island; deathbed scene of Commodore - says goodbye to assembled Ship's company; death of other injured men; telegraph news from Port Stephen; Sydney - burial of Commodore and other men, plans for monument. (240p.)

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