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  2. THE LOST TRYALS.

    N July, 1622, two boats reached the little Dutch settlement at Batavia, then recently ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 220 words
  3. The True Greek.

    I R, — 31 r. Campbell M'Kellar's letter of yesterday drew my attention to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,364 words
  4. AUSTRALIAN HORSES.

    LATE cablegram tell us "The impression prevails at the War Office that the horses or the Argentine ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,566 words
  5. LEFT ON THE ROCKS

    The 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 words
  6. A MYSTERY.

    It 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 words
  7. CHILDREN ON THE STARE

    ILL very recently one of the most popular, and certainly one of the prettiest parts of every ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 987 words
  8. MONTEBELLO ISLANDS.

    A 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 words
  9. SPECTRAL ROCKS.

    This 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 words
  10. KLEPTOMANIA.

    RE women more honest than men? Is there one point of superiority which even the most confirmed ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 745 words
  11. KING SCEPTICAL.

    As 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 words
  12. THE ROCKS TURN UP.

    Fleets 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 words
  13. THE BEAGLE.

    Commander 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 words
  14. A DANISH TALE.

    But 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 words
  15. ANOTHER DISCOVERY

    Still 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 words
  16. OCEAN DREAMERS.

    In 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 words
  17. FLINDERS DEFEATED.

    In 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]

    Article : 175 words
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