Our Voyage to New Zealand Per the Tornado (by a Glasgow Emigrant) Glasgow Herald December 19, 1859
June 13. Purser put up the following notice as to provisions, cooking etc. Monday. Preserved meat & pres. potatoes. Tuesday. Pork and pea soup. Etc.etc.etc
Campbell, Alexander. Letters and papers, 1859 - 1870. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 50.
13th. The morning is fine but the breeze is very light so we make slow progress. We saw the cape clear and sailed out of the Irish channel into the Bay of Biscay about 6.30. The wind came merrily and continued at a good rate.
Booth, Thomas. Papers, 1857 - 1859. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2002/56.
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