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HMS Investigator

IRB 39/1 | Individual Remark Books.Individual Remark Books: HMS Investigator to HMS Linnet. | Assigned: 'Nathaniel Child, Master'. Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Guinea and Bight of Benin: Nigeria and Benin: visiting Lagos, Badagry, Porto Novo, River Niger, Onitsha and Lokoja: 30 June to 2 November 1865. 'Off Onitsha in 14 fathoms with BB. Current 5 knots. This is the first place you come to, where there's a shade of civilization, and that's a very little here it is a missionary establishment, but the people are a very savage lot, the men do nothing but walk about, armed to the teeth': 5 October1865.…