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