Catalogue Number
Acquisitions Record
Object Name
newspaper cutting
Title
The Illustrated London News. Scenes On Board An Australian Emigrant Ship, 1849. Emigrants On Deck; Mixture Of The People: Recenet Acquisitions
Place
Australia; Scotland; Ireland; Wales; England & UK
People
Emigrants: United Kingdom emigrants to Australia
Date
1849
Description
"I think I cannot do better than refer to parts of a journal kept on my voyage out, and which at the time will serve to explain the accompanying Engraving, from drawings made from sketches taken during the passage:
Four bells. On deck. Weather thick and hazy. Off Madeira: distant twenty miles. Six bells. A general turn-out from below. Breakfast over. Emigrants on deck disperse themselves in various little groups. The schoolmaster has summoned his little class, and seated reverentially on some spars, the prescribed educational course is in full progress. A contemplative shepherd takes a solitary seat on the keel of the reversed long-boat amid-ships. Not a few are lounging over the ship's side, prying with curious eyes into the secrets of the 'deep, deep sea' ...."
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