This illustration by Alphonse de Neuville, from F. E. Raynal’s Wrecked on a reef (1880), shows the Grafton survivors guarding their flame. Fire for warmth and cooking was an essential requirement for survival.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference:
F. E. Raynal, Wrecked on a reef, or, twenty months among the Auckland Isles. London: T. Nelson, 1880, p. 53
Lithograph by Alphonse de Neuville
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