Diary (134p.), 09 November 1869-12 July 1870

Component identifier:: Subseries JOD/180/1
Content Summary:: Details of other passengers; weather; fight between passengers; Divine Service held on deck; 'dead horse' day; 'the jacks celebrated the crossing the line in a most scurvy and low spirited manner'; taking photographs; sighting other ships; entertainment - concert, drunkenness on Christmas Day, card games; presentation of testimonial to Captain; description of Melbourne - 'everything seems to be only half finished'; visit to pantomime 'at which there were some very severe cuts at the 'mother country''; hot winds; 'sick of Melbourne', decides to go to Tasmania; bad passage to Launceston; Tasmania 'a most delightful place'; Campbelltown; rabbit shooting; kangaroo hunting; Melbourne; took a passage home in Lady Jocelyn; 'Merchant of Venice' at Princess' Theatre 'never laughed so hard in all my life'; sports at Melbourne Cricket Ground; debate at House of Assembly; 29 March 1870, embarked on Lady Jocelyn - other passengers; fishing; entertainments and games; 'Lady Jocelyn Weekly Times'; gales; sighting iceberg; death of Capt. Heywood; rounding Horn; crossing the line dinner and dance.
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Location of this collection:: National Library of Australia

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia