Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain works at The National Library of Australia.) +-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: JAMES JOHNSON, THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF THE DUNBAR. (_From a Photograph by_ FREEMAN BROTHERS.)] SPECIAL EDITION. FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY. A NARRATIVE OF THE MELANCHOLY WRECK OF THE "DUNBAR," MERCHANT SHIP, ON THE SOUTH HEAD OF PORT JACKSON, AUGUST 20TH, 1857, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL LOCALITIES. Warning not heard or seen--no help at hand-- The wide dark bosom of the angry deep With irresistible and cruel force Received them all. _One_ only cast alive, Fainting and breathless on the fatal rocks-- To weeping friends and strangers afterwards Thus told his melancholy tale-- SYDNEY: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETORS BY JAMES FRYER. 1857. THE ILLUSTRATIONS. In the preparation of our illustrations it will be at once seen that no expense or trouble has been spared. The drawings are by distinguished Artists, and most truthfully do they represent the principal localities of this shipwreck, being exquisitely engraved by our respected fellow-citizen, W. G. Mason, formerly connected with the _Illustrated London News_. The following are the places thus graphically set before our readers--_The Gap_, (on Saturday, the 22nd instant) near which the awful calamity occurred taken from a spirited drawing upon the spot by Mr. Angas, and showing some of the painful incidents. _The Wreck_ (or principal fragment of the Wreck) _in Middle Harbour_ after an excellent drawing by Mr. Thomas. _The Rescue of the survivor, Johnson_, after a masterly sketch also by Mr. Angas. _An Outline Sketch of the Coast on which the Dunbar was lost_, by Thomas. And lastly, a small _Outline Map_, by means of which strangers, and such colonists as are not well acquainted with the coast and outer part of Port Jackson, may best be given to understand how and where this most deplorable affair took place. [Illustration: THE GAP. JACOB'S LADDER. WRECK. FLAG STAFF. The above outline sketch of the brink of the cliffs, under which the Dunbar was lost, is useful as serving to point out the exact spot where the vessel struck--about 35 feet distant in a direct line from the main road leading to Watson's Bay.] NARRATIVE OF THE WRECK OF THE "DUNBAR."