Transcriber's Note: Many illustration captions are missing from theoriginal. These captions have been added in as they appear in the List ofIllustrations, and all captions have been conformed to the List of Illustrations. Some illustrations have been moved so as to avoidbreaking up the text; links in the List of Illustrations are tothe actual locations of the illustrations.
The original contains a number of alternate spellings of proper nouns(e.g., Vasco de Gama for Vasco da Gama; Tawomba for Toowomba;Warrangarra for Wallangarra). These have been preserved as they appearin the original. Otherwise, obvious printer errors have been corrected.Where it is not clear whether something is an error, the questionabletext is marked with dotted red underlining, and a pop-upTranscriber's Notehas been provided.
THE LAST VOYAGE,
TO INDIA AND AUSTRALIA,
IN THE ‘SUNBEAM.’
BY THE LATE
Lady Brassey.
ILLUSTRATED BY R.T. PRITCHETT AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS.
The full-page plates and the headings to the chapters are printed inmonotone by E. Nister, of Nuremberg.
The wood engravings in the text are executed by Edward Whymper, J.D.Cooper, and G. Pearson.
PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
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CHART SHOWING TRACK OF THE YACHT “SUNBEAM” FROM NOV.1886 TO DEC. 1887.
‘SUNBEAM,’ R.Y.S., CHRISTMAS DAY, 1886
THE LAST VOYAGE
Annie Brassey
1887.
| Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld; Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more! |
LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET
1889
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