08/03/1838 - 21/07/1838

Via Teneriffe, Rio (stayed 10 days) & Cape Town (18 days). Departing Holdfast Bay (14 July) for Sydney (Arriving 21 July) (with Govr Hindmarsh & Marines from the Buffalo) & Port Essington to form northern settlement. Letters of Francis Meynell to his father, 1837-39, NMM, Greenwith, Lieut F. Meynell Papers, MEY/3;