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The old Fitzroy from BRISBANE, may have been a fine boat, but quite believed that "land was a solid substance, much desired by those at sea". We missed the tide at the BURNET(sic) heads, next tide was not high enough, & we anchored outside the heads for 21 hours.

Gladstone was not important enough, being late, to call in, & we went on to KEPPLE BAY & transferred into a little boat called the EMILY MAY, belonging to a fine old DANE called CAPTAIN JANSON. Too late for the tide at THE NARROWS, & we stayed at an hotel on CURTIS ISLAND. No dingie to take us ashore, & the Capt carried the Hon ALBERT NORTON first, then my father (16 stone), & who would blame him for staggering, he must have thought me a feather weight. A deputation had come from GLADSTONE to meet their member, they had come in the EMILY MAY. & evidently thought the pub a better place to wait than in a small boat in KEPPLE BAY. Politics were McILWRAITH & GRIFFITH in those good old days.

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