HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874<br><p>Inscribed on back of drawing: “HMS ‘Basilisk’, Captain John Moresby 1871. 28th May [1874]. In Threshold Bay, New Guinea. Anchored off a delicious little cove of this large open Bay – The Rajah of Salwatti who is supreme ruler came off to visit us in a large prahu rowed by about 20 men”. See Moresby's "Discoveries &amp; Surveys in New Guinea..." (John Murray, 1876), Chapter XVIII, for this incident.
</p><p>Heightened with white. Signed “MFM” bottom-right.<br></p>
H.M.S. Basilisk Captn John Moresby, 24 May 1874. Threshold Bay New Guinea, Anchorea
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