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Re: The famous name of a steamer to Papua Guinea

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:28:59 +0100 (CET)
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Dear Peter,

The expedition you mention doesn't ring a bell with me. I will forward
your message to my friends of the Dutch JV Society, perhaps someone
else knows more about it.

Cheers,
Garmt.


On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Peter Harold wrote:

> Dear friends!
>
> By suggestion from a member in the Swedish Jules Verne
> Society, I visited the on-line database at the
> University of Helisngfors, and found a short note that
> I need your comments about.
>
> It is dated in Dec 15th 1885 and published in the
> newspaper "Finland", and tells about a future
> expedition to the Dutch colony at Papua Guinea. The
> only problem left is to get money to the trip
> down-under. The journey will be made with the steamer
> "Jules Verne" from Amsterdam.
>
> Do you know, dear friends, anything about this ship?
> And perhaps some of our well-informed members in
> Holland know anything about this expedition, if it
> ever got to run?
>
> Best regards
> Peter Harold
>
>
Received on Fri 17 Feb 2006 - 16:29:25 IST

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