N July, 1622, two boats reached the little Dutch settlement at Batavia, then recently ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 220 wordsI R, — 31 r. Campbell M'Kellar's letter of yesterday drew my attention to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,364 wordsLATE cablegram tell us "The impression prevails at the War Office that the horses or the Argentine ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,566 wordsThe Dutchmen, it appears, had no means of sending relief to the Shipwrecked people on the rocks, and they were left to their fate. But when it was found from the description of the ...
Article : 250 wordsIt is morally certain that these instructions were observed; as soon as a ship reached the latitude in question every one en board thought of the Tryal and her crew, of sunken rocks, and ...
Article : 214 wordsILL very recently one of the most popular, and certainly one of the prettiest parts of every ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 987 wordsA few days before he was engaged in this search, the French discovery chip Geographe, with her tender, the Casuarina, under Citizen Baudin, was sailing north along the same coast, giving French names ...
Article : 171 wordsThis was just the sort of topic to take the fancy of a sailor, and the amount of discussion that went on about the Tryals was without a parallel. The interest felt in it was ...
Article : 279 wordsRE women more honest than men? Is there one point of superiority which even the most confirmed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 745 wordsAs to the Tryals, he believed that they were nothing more than Barrow and Trimouille Islands, and the numerous reefs around them. He was on the spot long enough to test the various accounts ...
Article : 216 wordsFleets of East India ships continued to pass and pass the 20th parallel for over sixty years with the same Result; but at last the rocks turned up again. They were seen in 1707 by a Dutch ship ...
Article : 304 wordsCommander Stokes, who surveyed our coasts in 1837-43 in the Beagle, claims the credit of having "cleared up the doubts respecting the long-lost Tryal Rocks." His examination of the Montebello ...
Article : 301 wordsBut for sixty years more the East Indiamen sailed in this treacherous sea without any sign of the Tryals being seen, notwithstanding their careful observations; and again the shades of mystery ...
Article : 248 wordsStill another surprise was in store. A year or two after the Beagle had concludes hey investigation the master of the Dutch ship Jacoods, on his arrival at Batavia, reported that he had seen the ...
Article : 119 wordsIn considering the probability of this question it is right to bear in mind King's remarks about the folly of trusting to appearances at sea—suggested by an incident that occurred in his voyage: "The ...
Article : 361 wordsIn the hope of finally removing these doubts, the instructed Flinders to examine the shoals during his survey of our coasts In the Investigator. He was supplied with all the charts and other information available; and having a natural ambition to succeed where so many others ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Sat 15 May 1897, Page 9
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