£160
A LOG BOOK FOR THE BARQUE ELIZA CHARLES, 1855
kept by Edward Lewis, Master, plying from Akyab (Burma) to Falmouth, probably with a cargo of rice, 29 March – 20 September 1855, 99 pp. Most of the log (rather illiterate) concerns itself with weather and the working or not working of the pump, the men are almost exclusively employed repairing sails and ‘sundry’, although for two days they are scraping and varnishing the lower masts, 5 and 6 April the cargo very heated and from time to time the same until Antwerp, 17 May, man lost overboard, passed by St. Helena and Ascension Island, and arrived at Antwerp 19 September, bound in sail cloth -- 11½ x 9½in. (29 x 24 cm.)
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