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Manilla Express

Location

Manilla, New South Wales, Australia

Date

Dec 22, 1933

Page

6

Flotman's Object Lesson in a Peruvian Passion

Dick Ordway travels to Peru with his wife Mrs. Ordway stirring jealousy. A rival Spaniard, d Alcantara, courts her openly, provoking a deadly confrontation. Hofman, a South American wanderer, intervenes and sends a grim object lesson via Huase the Indian. Ordway later receives a letter linking the episode to Elsie Burroughs.

Dick Ordway Peru Ordway d'Alcantara d’Alcantara Peruven Mrs. Ordway Kis Gustav Hofman South America Ecuador Brazil Yavary Amazon Hofman Senor Martinez Huase D' Alcantara Hotman Yarimaca New York Burroughs Elsie Burroughs Lima Museum of Natural History Hidalgo Garrett Staten I Liberty Senor What Wrath Huaje Yurimacan Yurimata War ¢Liquette Alcantara Elsie

Burke and Wills Expedition Began in Melbourne

The article recounts the Burke and Wills expedition starting from Melbourne in 1860 funded by Victoria to reach the Gulf of Carpentaria via the Darling River and Cooper's Creek. It describes the Menindie halt, Burke's split with staff, and dangers that foreshadowed catastrophe, plus a digression into a Peru Lima tale involving Richard Ordway and Gustav Hofman and a dangerous confrontation over a woman's past.

Melbourne Victoria Gulf of Carpentaria Darling River Cooper's Creek Adelaide Menindie Burke Willa King Gray Brahe Wills Gulf Australia Bynoe Melbourne General Cemetery

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Flotman John J. A Becket Photographs By Francis Birtles Royal Park Menindie, N.S.W Peruvian Pedro d’Alcantara Martinez Pedro Baia de Boulogne Paris Richard Yurimaca Pedro d'Alcantara Walker Frederick Walker Rockhampton
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