Draft diary [manuscript]. [184-].

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Draft diary [manuscript]. [184-].

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Part of a manuscript of a proposed book entitled "The voyage of the Acheron" which was never published and was found, incomplete, in The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. The donor discovered the rest of the manuscript in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, N.Z. (MS 157).

12 leaves.

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Stokes, John Lort, 1811-1885

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John Lort Stokes (b. 1811 - d. 1885) was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1837 and sailed to Australia on the Beagle under Commander J.C. and P.P. King. After doing some surveying of the coast sail was set for the north on 5 January 1838. The Adelaide River was discovered in March 1839 and the Victoria later in the same year. Later further work was done on the coast of northern and north-western Australia, and in 1842 on the southern coast of Australia, Bass Strait and Tasmania. In May 1843 Stoke...

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