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BROWNRIGG, Canon Marcus.

Mission to the Islands: the missionary voyages in Bass Strait of Canon Marcus Brownrigg, 1872-1885.

Foot & Playsted Launceston 1987 Edited, with an introduction, by Stephen Murray-Smith. Reprint. 244pp, illus. Soft-covers with dustwrapper. Fine. ISBN ***Reprints the text of Brownrigg's "Cruise of the Freak", published in 1872 (Ferguson 7578) and his accounts of twelve other 'missions' to the Aboriginal communities in Bass Strait, published each year in the Launceston Examiner (some also in pamphlet form).

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