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Record #195833:

Falkland mysteries: Old Brock's grave (160 years on) / John V. Chaplin.

Title: Falkland mysteries: Old Brock's grave (160 years on) / John V. Chaplin.
Author(s): Chaplin, John V.
Date: 2008.
In: Falkland Islands Journal. (2008.), Vol. 9(3) (2008)
Abstract: Describes strange experience near gravestone at Gun Hill, Christmas Harbour, West Falkland, and provides brief biographical notes on Alfred D. Brockway, who accidentally shot himself on Christmas Day, 1849 hunting a warrah while en route to Californian goldfields.
Notes:

Falkland Islands Journal. Vol. 9(3) :63-70 (2008).

Keywords: 92(093.5) -- Memorials: Brockway, Alfred D.
291.216 -- Belief in spirits.
93"184" -- 1840-1849.
V -- History.
(*7) -- Antarctic regions.
(*721) -- Falkland Islands.
SPRI record no.: 195833

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