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Print
440668
  • Title
    Robert Edward Buffett - Journal, 1881-1887
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PMB 426
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    440668
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : PMB 426
  • Physical Description
    microfilm reel 35 mm
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Robert Edward Buffett was a Norfolk Islanders, who died on Norfolk Island in 1953 at the age of 90. The book in which by a Portuguese or Brazilian seaman, Manuel Jose. Some pages in Portuguese are in his hand at the beginning of the book, which he presented to Buffett
  • Scope and Content
    The journal gives an account of a whaling voyage in the New Bedford bark Canton from 1881 to 1885 and in the bark Petrel in 1887. Buffett signed on the Canton at Norfolk Island. The bark subsequently visited many islands in the Pacific
  • General note

    PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 426
    Available for reference
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