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Mrs. Fraser on the Fatal Shore (Paperback, New ed)
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Mrs. Fraser on the Fatal Shore (Paperback, New ed)
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In 1836, the barque Stirling Castle was wrecked on the Great
Barrier Reef and the crew and the captain's wife, Mrs Fraser, were
cast ashore on the coast of what is now Queenstand. Captured by
aborigines with cannibalistic tendencies, Captain Fraser and his
wife were stripped naked and driven into the bush. Fraser was then
murdered and his wife, a lady of genteel upbringing, was tortured
and made to perform humiliating tasks as the slave of the tribe.
Having given birth in an open boat, her baby was immediately
drowned and she was forced instead to mother an aboriginal child
one of the most deformed and ugly looking brats my eyes ever
beheld. A remarkable rescue by an Irish convict, posing as a ghost
of a dead warrior, saved Mrs Fraser whose subsequent misadventures
in England provide an intriguing finale to this extraordinary
story.
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