Whaling papers, 1810-1891

PMB 225

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

441160

Microfilm : PMB 225

microfilm reel 35 cm

The collection includes: letters from Pitcairn Island by Rosalind Young to Captain and Mrs Gibbons, 1882-1891; sailing directions for Fiji, vocabulary, account of Fijian chiefs, sandalwood trade by William Lockerby; Fiji vocabulary, 1810-1812 by Capt. William Putnam Richardson; description of Fijian cannibal feast, 1845 and wreck of the Glide, 1831 and documents written during cruise of Glide among Fiji Islands by Henry Fowler; 19th century charts of the Pacific Ocean; 12 pages of text in Marquesan language; miscellaneous documents relating to Tahiti including score of a song by 'E.R.P.', 1889 and a review by N.E. Emerson of Eugene Caillot's "Histoire de la Polynesie Oriental"; and miscellaneous papers relating to Fiji and New Hebrides including pamphlet on Fiji native ownership of land, 1874; notes by A. Hocart; letter from J. B. Thurston re native attitudes, 1871 and extracts from logs of early American ships

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 225
Filmed for the New England Microfilming Project
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of originals held by Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass
No part of the contents of this microfilm may be reproduced in any way without the 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