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Passengers of note were Robert Gouger (Colonial Secretary),
his friend John Brown (Emigration Agent) and
Robert Thomas (first printer of South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register).
Charles George EVERARD - Outermediate Cabin
"The Voyage of the Africaine, told by Mary Thomas, Robert Gouger and Other Passengers"
by Penelope Hope
This book contains a collection of Journals Letters and extracts from contemporary publications.
The Africaine was the first ship to bring paying immigrants to South Australia.
She was a barque of some 300 tons, and carried a crew of seventeen and about eighty passengers.
She had, by the standards of 1836, a smooth passage. So much for the bones of the story.
The flesh is provided by the journals and letters of her passengers,
very real human beings who,
for various reasons, left their homes in England
and set sail for a new life in South Australia.
Why did they come, what did they expect, and what did they find?
The State Library of South Australia also holds a selection of extracts from the diary of Mary Thomas Jnr
who later became the second wife of colonial artist, J.M. Skipper.
http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=758&c=3513
On November 2nd 1836, five passengers [Messrs. Osborn, Nantes, Bagg, Richards and W. Slater]
landed at Kangaroo Island between Capes Borda and Ferbin, intending to walk across to Kingscote.
They lost themselves in the bush, and after several days of much suffering from hunger and thirst,
Nantes, Bagg and Richards reached the settlement, but the other two were never seen again. Source: Opie
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