Guide to the Diary of Daniel Higson (as filmed by the AJCP)

Diary Vol. 1, 1 January 1868 - 11 April 1870 (File 1)

Includes:Entries relating to: Talk of going to Australia; Buying ticket to sail on Great Britain from Liverpool to Melbourne on 12 August; saying goodbye to family and friends; details of voyage, food, other ships, books read, religious services, dancing, death and burial of child, description of other passengers. Landing at Sandridge 14 October 1869; details of new diet and prices of food; description of Melbourne streets; shooting birds; trip to Geelong to shoot birds; visit to free Library and Museum; trip by coach to Tyler's Flat; buying of tent; description of gold diggings and men washing for gold; digging at Uncle Tom's Gulley; return to Melbourne; decision to go home; visit to Varieties; walking around Melbourne in evenings; deciding to work passage home on Lochawe via Cape Horn; boarding on 1 December 1869; sailed 4 December; description of sailing duties and other crew members; food served-lime juice after 10 days; catching porpoises and flying fish; docking at Gravesend 10 April 1870 and towing into Victoria Dock. [168-277]...