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Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 The Song of the Ship
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'On the pleasures of sea-sickness.' (Webby)

Notes

  • Author's note: The following jeu d'esprit was written on board the Jane Frances on her voyage out from London to Van Diemen's Land.
  • For other poetic works connected with the Jane Frances, see the entry for John Anthony Moore who travelled on the previous voyage from Hobart to London.

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