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“A swim for life”, Supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News, April 1881.

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“A swim for life”, Supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News, April 1881.

This is a coloured engraving after a painting by Arthur Collingridge. “It represents an incident in the recent massacre by South Sea savages of Lieutenant-Commander Bower and four seamen of Her Majesty’s ship Sandfly.” (p. 14) This took place in November 1880 in the Solomons.

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