Thro' my friend Bergeret, I have lately obtained the greatest part of my books and charts, and therefore am assiduously employed in repairing the ravages that were made amongst them by the Porpoise's shipwreck, and in making others to complete the hydrographical account of my voyage.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
Your last, containing the last sheet of your chart, I forwarded to the hydrographical Office at the Admiralty, as you desired.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
He could bury her beneath evidence taken by Royal Commission and Parliamentary Committee, commissioners' reports, testimony of shipowners and captains; calculated tables of tides, sets of currents, prevailing winds; results of surveys hydrographical; all the mass of facts he had been accumulating and brooding over for eighteen long months.
"The Ship of Stars"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch