The Enderby Settlement: Britain's Whaling Venture on the Subantarctic Auckland Islands, 1849-52 by Conon Fraser

Author:Conon Fraser [Fraser, Conon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780947522377
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Publisher: Otago University Press
Published: 2014-11-15T00:07:45.043522+00:00

1 disregard of the instructions of the Court of Directors, especially as to the stores and accounts

2 absence from the settlement without sufficient cause

3 ruinous expenditure, for want of proper measures for procuring supplies

4 long detention of ships in harbour … breaking up crews, as with that of the Lord Duncan, and withdrawing parties from ships for the purpose of establishing them on shore

5 allowing parties to incur debts to the Company

6 wasteful and reckless expenditure of stores, as instanced by no account of rations having been kept; and indifferent care of the Company’s property

7 conveying erroneous information respecting soil, climate, productions, &c.

8 constant vacillation of purpose

9 challenging and questioning the Special Commissioners’ authority

10 justifying every act complained of.

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