LIFE, VOYAGES, AND EXPLOITS OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, WITH NUMEROUS ORIGINAL LETTERS FROM HIM AND THE LORD HIGH ADMIRAL TO THE QUEEN AND "THE FIRST WHO PLOUGHED A FURROW ROUND THE WORLD." SECOND EDITION, ABRIDGED. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1844. 6-3700-90 required to make them equally good with those sold by English chandlers. Various circumstances having combined to determine us on quitting New South Wales, and permanently settling in Van Diemen's Land, we prepared for our removal thither, and in October, 1840, again returned to Sydney for a few days, which, as if to confirm my dislike of the place, and increase my joy at quitting it, were the most disagreeable I had ever passed there. The heat, even at that early period, was most oppressive, and the detestable mosquitoes (with their horrible allies) besieged us in swarms, cruelly tormenting my poor child, whose chubby face and fair fat arms were covered with their mountainous bites, despite of all my care and contrivances. We embarked in a lumbering Colonial-built vessel named the Sir George Arthur (since wrecked off Bermuda), and once more passing the beautiful coves and bays of Port Jackson, sailed forth through its mighty gates on our way to a new home in Tasmania. THE END. London: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street. |