Cadell

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 613

Cadell, FRANCIS, born at Cockenzie, near Edinburgh, in 1822, became an East India midshipman, and is best known as the explorer of the Murray River with a view to its navigation (1850-59). He was murdered by a mutinous crew when commanding a ship sailing from Amboyna in 1879.

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