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    The South Seaman An Incident In The Sea Story Of Australia - 1901
    The South Seaman An Incident In The Sea Story Of Australia - 1901
    The South Seaman An Incident In The Sea Story Of Australia - 1901
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    The South Seaman An Incident In The Sea Story Of Australia - 1901

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The South Seaman An Incident In The Sea Story Of Australia - 1901 - Louis Becke

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      Title: The South Seaman

             An Incident In The Sea Story Of Australia - 1901

      Author: Louis Becke

      Release Date: April 19, 2008 [EBook #25108]

      Last Updated: January 8, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SOUTH SEAMAN ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE SOUTH SEAMAN:

      AN INCIDENT IN THE SEA STORY OF AUSTRALIA

      From The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories

      By Louis Becke

      C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.

      1901

      On the 22nd of July, 1828, the Sydney South Seaman, Indefatigable, eleven days out from the Port of Conception in Chili, was in lat 17? S. and about 127? E. long., six hundred miles distant from the nearest land—the then almost unknown Paumotu Group, which Cook had well named the Dangerous Archipelago.

      Five years before, the brig was named the Calder, and was then commanded by Captain Peter Dillon, a famous officer in the East India Company's service; his name is interwoven with the sea story of Australia as the commander of the Company's ship Research, and the discoverer of the relics of the gallant and ill-fated La Perouse, whose ships were wrecked on Vanikoro Island, in the New Hebrides group, in 1788.

      When the Colder was under the command of Captain Dillon she was a crack Indian trader to Port Jackson, but newer and smarter vessels drove her out of the trade; and in 1828 she was owned by Mr. John Duncan, an English merchant of Valparaiso, who for this present voyage had loaded her with wheat for Sydney, and sent her to sea under the command of Mr. Joseph Hunter, after changing her name to Indefatigable.

      The first and second mates of the brig were Europeans, as also were two or three of the crew—the rest were Chilenos, picked up at the last moment of sailing. The steward was a

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