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Protecting a flame

Protecting a flame

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.

About this item

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

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Ken Scadden. 'Castaways', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 2-Mar-09
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/castaways/2/1