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SECONDHAND BOOK
From the dust jacket flap:
“Exploits of Lieutenant Charles Jeffreys R.N. 1782-1826 naval officer and author; Commander of the brigs ‘Emu’ and ‘Kangaroo’. This adventurous Lieutenant arrived in Port Jackson in 1814 when his first commission was to transport convicts, soldiers and other passengers from Port Jackson to the Derwent. But he detoured, much to the annoyance of the Governor, when he charted and named Molle Island in the Whitsunday Passage after Governor Molle, and Mount Jeffreys on Molle Island after himself. When sailing around Cape York Peninsular he discovered and named other places on the east coast of Queensland. In 1820 Jeffreys and his wife brought their favourite nephew George Thomas Lloyd aged nine years to Van Diemen’s Land, where he retired from the navy and took up land in Sorell. I recorded their experiences there with bushrangers, aborigines and convicts.
George Lloyd developed into an eminent pioneer and journeyed to Geelong in his schooner ‘The Gem’ in 1837; he and his party met up with James Austin and his party. Later he drove his sheep together with Hugh Murray to Colac being the first white settlers there.
Back in Geelong he was a local Councillor and Alderman in local government. An autobiography from 1901 to 1978 with its adjacent history. A true story.
Specifications:
Condition: Fair – ex-library, some library stickers, faded and tearing to spine, general wear, signed by the author.
Publisher: Edgewaters
Year: 1981
Format: Hardback with dustjacket
Pages: 380pp
ISBN: 0959404600
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