Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.

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.
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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.

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.