HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874 RMG PW8115

HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874
Inscribed on back of drawing: “HMS ‘Basilisk’, Captain John Moresby 1871. 28th May [1874]. In Threshold Bay, New Guinea. Anchored off a delicious little cove of this large open Bay – The Rajah of Salwatti who is supreme ruler came off to visit us in a large prahu rowed by about 20 men”. See Moresby's "Discoveries & Surveys in New Guinea..." (John Murray, 1876), Chapter XVIII, for this incident.
Heightened with white. Signed “MFM” bottom-right.

H.M.S. Basilisk Captn John Moresby, 24 May 1874. Threshold Bay New Guinea, Anchorea