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This book contains a memoir written by Miriam Lawrence describing
the extraordinary voyage she made in 1848-50 aged 20. She had
accompanied her husband, Captain Alexander Lawrence, on the maiden
voyage of the Charlotte Jane, a wooden 3 mast merchant sailing
ship. They set sail with their baby daughter, a teenage nursemaid,
a surgeon and 264 emigrants for Sydney, Australia. Then they sailed
to Hong Kong, Singapore, Bombay, Whampoa (Canton), returning via
Cape Town to London. Besides the memoir, there are extracts from
her husband's logbook and letters to and from Miriam's parents.
There are also maps showing each stage of the voyage, illustrations
of the ship from the Canterbury Museum Christchurch, New Zealand,
and contemporary pictures of the places visited. They were nearly
shipwrecked, faced fearful storms and at one point a near mutiny.
Their second child was born in the China Seas. Miriam's writing
provides an evocative account of what it had been like for a young
woman to take part in such an adventure; one which many British
merchant seamen were undertaking at that date: circumnavigating the
world.
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