File:HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874 RMG PW8115.jpg
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English: HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874. Inscribed on back of drawing: “HMS ‘Basilisk’, Captain John Moresby 1871. 28th May [1874]. In Threshold Bay, New Guinea. Anchored off a delicious little cove of this large open Bay – The Rajah of Salwatti who is supreme ruler came off to visit us in a large prahu rowed by about 20 men”. See Moresby's "Discoveries & Surveys in New Guinea..." (John Murray, 1876), Chapter XVIII, for this incident. |
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| Source | National Maritime Museum |
| Author | M. F. M. |
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