Identity area
Reference code
AU ANUA 484-309
Title
"A Day in the Life of a Beche-de-Mer Fisherman Half a Century Ago" and other extracts and publications
Date(s)
- 19th Century (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
(1927 - 2004)
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Various photocopies of publications including Warwick M. Tompkins, Sr. and Captain Edmund French Clay ""Blackbirding" in New Guinea"; "A Day in the Life of a Beche-de-Mer Fisherman Half a Century Ago", author unknown; newspaper clippings regarding Captain John Strachan; Captain McKenzie "Observations on Making the Passage to the Eastward Through Torres Strait, and the Monsoons in the Timour (sic) Sea", The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, March 1847; "Trepang", Nautical magazine 1870; "Massacres at the Sandalwood Islands", Sydney Morning Herald, June 24, 1850; and more