Alfred Withers. Diary of voyage in James Baines, Liverpool to Melbourne, 05 January 1857-23 March 1857

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Series JOD/171
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Details of loading passengers and their luggage; accommodation on board; stowaways; sighting other ships; 'James Baines Times'; quarrels among passengers; sighting dolphins, birds and porpoises; dancing; discussion groups; weekly concert; histories of passengers - 'family scapegraces...ladies running after husbands...; ladies running from husbands...lucky diggers'; birth of litter of pigs; death of child; 'The Story of the Clipper' song composed and sung by Mr O'Donnell the Chief Officer; sighted Kerguelen's Land; sighting Australia. (110p.)

Also includes: History of James Baines; chart of course; watercolour sketches of life on board ship.

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