It is a small migration, one back to a country that was founded in 1847 by freed American slaves who had made a very different ocean journey.
The Sri Lankan government said the deal would encourage more people to risk the ocean journey to Australia.
It is possible that he started this work before his passage to Montevideo, and also continued the work during his ocean journey.
They stepped off a ship after a long ocean journey.
The young are reared for about 10 months, a period when the mother makes numerous ocean journeys in search of food.
Some joke was likely to be played on Mark Twain during these ocean journeys, and for this particular voyage an original one was planned.
Some background reading reveals that the series symbolizes the middle passage: the ocean journey of abducted people from West Africa to the West Indies or the United States.
While Cheslakee had handled well during the ocean journey, after the upperworks were added the ship took on a permanent list.
Boats would wait in the protection of Broken Bay and Pittwater, until favourable weather allowed them to make the ocean journey to Sydney Heads.
All the stress and agony they had experienced in their ill-fated ocean journey had taken its toll.