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Southern Highlands · Shipwrecks & the sea
14 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
This narrative must begin at the beginning. In Charles Dickens' story of "The Cricket on the Hoarth," he says, "If I am to tell a story I must begin at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have been six charming days at sea, during which every experience worth recalling and relating has been exchanged by the now happy family…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Awake!" cries the Persian poet, "for Morning, in the Bowl of Night has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to flight."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dr. Quaiffe, son of the respected medico of that name, who resides at Roudeva, and took Mr. Meeks' vacant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The phrase, "The voyage of life," is such a common one that it has lost its significance, at any rate, to tho untravelled man. But its appropriateness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We arrived at Gavutu early one morning, and I felt my heart go out to it with a bound. Indeed, throughout the trip I have felt like a young man,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gallego, Mendana's chief pilot, reported in his journal of this island, that it would probably take months to sail right around it. This, of course,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After steaming from Guadalcanar one forenoon, and passing, without stopping, the large island of Malaita where the inhabitants are still rather wild and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Who can doubt but that there are higher intelligences around us, possessed of more senses than we, but who cannot fully commensurate with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aden, August 14.—The steamer Fifeshire (5812 tons), of the Federal-Houlder-Shire line, which left Sydney on July 7 for London and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Only five bodies have been recovered of the crew of the N C Co.'s steamer Macleay, which was wrecked on Wednesday night off Broughton Island…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When was the first steam voyage from England to Calcutts accomplished? This cannot be answered with any degree of certainty, for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After all the women and children were gone, I began to think it was time to take my own passage. Nothing, I hope, would have induced me to leave the sinking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In connection with the wreck of the P. and O. steamer Delhi, which went ashore near Cape Spartel, north-west Morocco, while bound…
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