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Migration: Africa and Australasia Mauritius and Tasmania

IrY2 paid

1836-1838

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To Port Loui.s., Mauritius, 16 July, 1838-140 days
hip Letter from Aberdeen. anuscript rated at berdeen for 1/ 1 inland to port of
rl"""'" ..... ~. Yid mail tax and d paid for Yi oz. hip Letter rate. 1 d inland as dru at
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ttera

Manuscript routing
notation, ''First ship
after the Lloyds. -

Hobart, Tasmania, 6 December, 1837-167 days
215 Yi unpaid and twice forwarded Ship Letter initially to Edinburgh. Rate: 1/8 and re-rated 8 and 3/9
Yid mail tax upon forwarding cross counties. 22 May, Edinburgh, 24 May Edinburgh passing through
forwarding, where, "Postage to Edinburgh Not Pa.id" handstamp applied.
Per letter contents additional acreage is being purchased and financed through Scottish investors.

Establishing plantations in Mauritius began in fits and starts, by the 1830s sugar was a successful export crop and Scots came
to work. Settlements in Tasmania were agriculture based before mining interests were drawing migrants.