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THE FIRST FIVE CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION COWS
When the Canterbury Association Management Committee were pulling together all the details of the upcoming immigration of roughly 700 settlers to Christchurch and Canterbury in 1850, every little detail had to be thought of and ironed out. This included diet while on board. It was agreed that every ship should have at least one sheep, …
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The Corlett Family
In the early hours of the 18th September 1850, the passengers of the ‘Sir George Seymour’ – the third of our First Four Ships – heard one of the distress calls that no one at sea wants to hear. FIRE! It is not reported whether the watch-keeper (name of the male passengers who strolled the …
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Suicide On The Isabella Hercus
As the ‘Isabella Hercus’ – the Canterbury Association’s 6th ship – broke through the waves 200 miles north of the Equator that warm November morning, Chaplin James Wilson was on the deck, murmuring a desperate prayer. He was aware of Captain Houston crouching down beside him impatiently but this poor dead young woman lying before …
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The Meditation Of A Cockroach
The Meditation Of A Cockroach I am no less than a cockroach bold, creeping and crawling from deck to hold, hunting each cabin and hammock and bed, under the pillow where rests your head, under the tablecloth, up the chair, I run up your sleeves and I crawl through your hair; neither man or child …
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