J. T. Daly. Journal of H.M.S. Rosario on a South Sea Cruise, October 1873-February 1875

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Details of: Sailing from Sydney to Fiji; other ships at Levuka; ordered to islands off New Guinea and Solomon Islands to return labour; description of Levuka Harbour; 'the natives are a fine lot of men' - prevalent diseases; canoes; voyage to Banks' Islands; 'from appearances the natives were very glad to get their people back who had probably been kidnapped 3 years ago'; descriptions of the Islands, natives, villages; Ugi Island 'very thinly populated' due to labour traffic; Guadalcanal Island natives; misplacing of Solomon Islands in Admiralty charts; Port Prasliu; Isabel Island where Lavinia was captured - hostile reception by natives; Duke of York Island; Port Carteret ; New Ireland to collect evidence re loss of Lavinia; natives of New Ireland and Duke of York Island; dejection of natives of San Christoval Island.

Copy also: From back of volume, sketches of Rangitoto, wrecked off Cook's Straits, New Zealand and Malacca taking off crew of Megdra at St. Paul's Island, 1871.

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