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Volume 10 ‘Belle of the West’ Boots overboard Hong Kong I learn of the ‘Lakes’ Boston to Buffalo Freshwater sailor to New Orleans Liverpool and a visit After breakfast, for I went right to my old boarding house on Collins…
Notes (1) The Latham papers are kept in the National Library of Australia at MS1009 and MS 6409. They use over eighteen metres of shelf space. One of the few works to consider Latham’s role in the history of Australian…
Borschmann, Gregg. The People’s Forest: A Living History of the Australian Bush. Blackheath, NSW: The People’s Forest Press. ISBN 0-646-36939-3 viii+pp.279.$39.95 The lively sub-field of Australian forest history is replete with policy, heritage, technological, silvicultural and ecological themes. Cultural themes…
Volume 9 ‘Toronado’ to Melbourne mutiny and a shooting cruel treatment Smallpox Quarantine Coasting in ‘Reindeer’ Gold digging again Having been paid off some 4 weeks previously from the London ship ‘Eliza’, in London, and been ashore that length of…
Volume 8 Around Cape Horn The Roaring Forties Trade winds to the Azores Falmouth, England Home to Ashton-Under- Line at last! Reunion We now learned for the first time that we were bound for Falmouth for orders, where Capt. Loutitt…
Volume 6 Down the Murray Barge “Captain” Baked cockatoo Rendezvous with the “Leichardt” Dysentery Refusing duty Goolwa Gaol or Adelaide Choka Our first day’s run down stream was gratifying to the Old Man for we had covered the distance in…
Volume 7 East Indiaman ‘Eliza’ Easy duty to Calloa, Peru Bevanco’s Revolution Caulking & re-coppering Under the revolutionary guns Chinchas Island guano We had been out of jail two weeks when Gleeson came into the house one day at noon…
Volume 5 Famous trip up the Murray River, 1856 The ‘Leichardt’ Chinese to Albury Over the Bar Meetings with Aborigines Making wood Moira Station With the exception of our having lost flesh (for we were all thin enough) we were…
Volume 4 Coastal trading in ‘Grenada’ 1855 Prisoners escape ‘Jenny Lind’ to Mauritius Robinson the monkey Storm damaged Short water and rations Safe at last It was long after dark when we had the ‘Swallow’ secured with good breast lines…
In the Gold Fields The ‘Pride of the Seas’ to Batavia Encounters with Straits Aborigines Visiting Islands Playing ‘Pirate’ Java Monkeys Shark In the latter part of February 1854, I was boarding at the Family Hotel, Lower George Street, Sydney,…
