Terrible Tale of the Sea. Foundering of the Steamer Hop[?]. Fierce Encounter with Sharks
Forbes Times · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 5
A THRILLING tale of the sea was brought by the steamer Chingtu, from China to Sydney, on Sunday night. The steamer [?] which sank in mid-ocean, was the vessel concerned…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 24 February 1900 · page 1
IN the commencement of the year of our Lord 1842, 1, Bob Blizzard, was serving as an A.B. in H.M. brig Pointer, twelve guns, employed in the…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 1
I lay by the side of poor Jack Dogherty's dead body, "a prey to hunger and thirst, for the men in the bows, though only a few days…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 4
My companions, Pedro and Baptista, stayed as much as possible in their hammocks during this rough journey, but I could not help feeling…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1900 · page 1
(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1900 · page 1
I at once agreed to his proposition, and he brought a mixture of grease and dirt, with which he smeared over me, and then, wrapping a dirty cloth…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 31 March 1900 · page 4
(I. Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1900 · page 1
I. Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late un cle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, de[?] to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his adventures on the Dark…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1900 · page 3
(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 186O, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…
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Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 3
The tenacity of life in seeds is remarkable. When a steamer was wrecked on the Maine coast some little time ago it carried several bags…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 1
At last silence was restored, and . then his secretary said that Xing Pedro Kagnombe welcomed us to Bihe" and that he wished to know…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 1
True to their time, the canoemen were there when we arrived at the river bank in the morning, and all Guilherme's and my people and goods…
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Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 5
The ship Sierra Nevada has gone ashore at Port Phillip Heads, Melbourne, and is a total wreck. Out of the crew which numbered 28, 23…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 1
(I. Benjamin Bunting so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr.Robert Blizzard deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 4
(I. Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 1
I waited anxiously for my friends' return, and the moments seemed to lengthen themselves into hours, whilst I longed for news, and the waiting had…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 1
CHAPTER XIX. The absurd idea of the men thinking that I had caused the death of Mone Kutu both Guilherme and I…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 4
(I.Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860.do here by declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr.Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1900 · page 3
When Mwepa had left, Guilherme and I had a serious talk about our future proceedings, and, calling for our men, we asked them if they would…
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The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1900 · page 1
On camping the night before we should reach Kwitula we were busily engaged in arranging our plans, when we were startled by a great…
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