Wilson, Shirley Cameron, 1838-1994, Mixed material, PRG 1399/3/1/000/F
Journal by Charles Algernon Wilson, aged 20, of a voyage from England to South Australia on the 'Duke of Roxburgh', 3 April to 30 April 1838. The first few pages include details of steerage conditions on board. Includes carefully drawn maps of the south coast of England and the English Channel (p.23), the west coast of France, Bay of Biscay and Portugal (p.29), north west coast of Africa and Atlantic Ocean islands (p.37), and pencil sketches of Madeira (p.39) and Cape Verde Islands (p.49). There are no entries past the arrival at the island of St Jago, Cape Verde Islands. A pencilled note at beginning refers to maps the writer planned to add. Towards end of volumes are 6 pp. of pencilled lists of insect categories dated Mar[ch] 1846. RESERVE 1.