Whaling logbooks and other documents, 1790-1857

PMB 774

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

440988

Microfilm : PMB 774

microfilm reel 35 mm

Logs of the following ships: Peacock USS, Vincennes USS, 1838-1842 (continued from reel PMB 773); Hope, 1790-1792; Vancouver, 1804-1806 (early fur trading voyage, beauty of Hawaii; visit of royal family); and Otter, 1809-1811 (visited by king at Hawaii; difficulties of navigation; problems and dangers of trading with the Indians; note on Russian plans for extension of influence 1810 May 26). Also includes a sketchbook by Taylor, 1854-1857

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 774
Filmed for the New England Microfilming Project
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of originals held by Beinecke Library, Yale University, Box 1603A, Yale Station, New Haven, CON 06520
No part of the contents of this microfilm may be reproduced in any way without the written permission of the holding institution
Robert Langdon, ed. American whalers and traders in the Pacific, 1978; and Robert Langdon, ed. Where the whalers went, 1984