Action Stebbing, Grace: Edward Bertram. v1. 8 Feb 2016

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Grace Stebbing: Born : 1840 St Pancras, London, England: Lived : Brighton, Sussex, England (final) Died : 1936 Feb 25 Brighton, Sussex, England

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A SAILING ship for Australia in 1837 was not an abode of delight, and the hold of the Good Bess was a perfectly horrible place, as young Edward Bertram soon found, even before the appalling dread came upon him that he had procured for himself a most awful living grave. Ned—or, as his schoolfellows always called him, “ good-tempered Ned ”— had often both heard and read of men and boys getting free passages to all parts of the world, and to all sorts of glorious adventures, by contriving cleverly to conceal themselves in the holds of ships during their lading, and so he had decided that it must be a very sensible and easy thing to do.

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