Roger Ticlibonie's Vessel, the Osprey.
• MORE UNEXPECTED EVIDENCE, j [Special to the "Sta_."J I DUNEDIN, Nov. 21. ; Relating to the question of a vessel -named the Osprey having ever visited ; Australiafrom Great Britain, I am favoured ' -with the following extract from the diary of H. Harris, written on the barque i Poictiers, from London to New Zealand, in ' 1850. Typhus fever had broken out among ■ ike steerage passengers, and the ship's : doctor contracted fever during attendance upon them. His life was ; despaired of for several days, and : Captain Beal, of tho Poictiers, was very ' anxious to speak any vessel he might ' meet with, in order to obtain medical •• assistance for him. The following is the ! extract from the diary : — " Friday, March j 15. Very hot indeed.- The doctor is very : £11, scarcely expected to live. Thermometer, > 96_eg. in cabin ; wind, N.E. Saturday, { 16. Rather cooler. Doctor no better, j Spoke the Liverpool ship Osprey, to see if j she had a medical man on board, which, she i had not. Passed her again to leeward about sunset. The thermometer 74deg in j cabin. Latitude, 19deg., N.E." The ! Poictiers was owned by Mr /Duncan, of } Dunbar.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5165, 21 November 1884, Page 3
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195Roger Ticlibonie's Vessel, the Osprey. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5165, 21 November 1884, Page 3
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