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July 9, 1864.]
ONCE A WEEK.
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PHILIP FRASER'S FATE.

CHAPTER I.

The following narrative I have compiled, partly from portions of the journal kept by my nephew, Philip Fraser, who was murdered at Melbourne in March, 1855; partly from his few letters to me; and partly from the conversations I have had with his companion, James Burlow. These conversations have enabled me to connect the incidents mentioned in the letters and the journal, and to under-
VOL. XI.
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No. 263.