06/10/1863 - 31/01/1864

ship was quarantined until 21/02/1864; Schoolmaster on-board; Crew observed Dead Horse custom after a month at sea; X-Mas well celebrated aboard; Shipboard diary 6 Oct - 23 Feb of Maria Steley, aged 15, including a period in quarantine camp at Brisbane, John Oxley Library, South Brisbane, reference OM 71-14 and copied on AJCP M 418; Diary reproduced in full, in researcher Andrew Hassam's book "No Privacy for Writing: Shipboard diaries 1852-79" (Melb 1995), including a song written on-board by the Steward (at Appendix 4);