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Albany Historical Society Inc > Records

EARLY DAYS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS VOL. 10 PART 5

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1993

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White cover with blue and green lettering with photograph of Sir John Forrest in the Goldfields on front cover. Royal Western Australian Historical Society (Inc). Vol. 10, Part 5. Pages 429-568, illustrated, maps, contents page, and articles. 461-472 article about A Whaling Family - The Heppingstones, mentions a voyage by the American Whale Ship Charles W. Morgan from 1849-1853 and the experiences of Nelson Cole Haley who was seventeen at the time. He wrote a book about his voyage and how the wind carried them past King Georges Sound and into Two Peoples Bay where they anchored for water. Encounter with a snake.

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cwa-org-51-B2010.158

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History - Western Australia

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Whaling Family early settlers in W.A.

Albany Historical Society Inc

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