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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1900

27 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 2 of 2

Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Chapter Xxiv

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 1

The leading men of those in pursuit of us halted when they saw the path blocked, and gave us time to deliver an effective volley before they charged…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. King Kongo Chapter Xxv

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 1

When the burial ol poor Guilherme was over all the men wished to again take to the canoes, and I fell in with their wishes, and for another night we…

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Bob Blizard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 14 July 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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Buzzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Chapter Xxvii

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 21 July 1900 · page 4

The lion was evidently not thinking of us, but challenging a rival, for we soon heard answering roars in the opposite direction, also drawing nearer…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. King Kongo of Kambola Chapter Xxviii

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 July 1900 · page 1

We crossed the Luapula in canoes, which had been ordered to be ready, and found on the opposite side a body of two hundred men, who appeared…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Bunting

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1900 · page 7

(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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Jack Ashore

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 5

In the old days the “handyman” as we are now used to call the man-o-wars man was a “dour” fellow He came ashore full rig with clapped knife…

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