134, +[3] ad pp. (12mo) original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt lyre device at center of front cover, spine gilt. First Edition.

"This volume describes several whaling voyages in the 1850s: the Dover of New London to Hawaii and the Marquesas; the Bowditch of Warren to the Bonin Islands, Hawaii, and the North Pacific; the Copia of New Bedford to Hawaii, the North Pacific and the Ladrones in 1853; and the Leonidas of Fairhaven to the Pacific. On board for several of these voyages, Newhall offers an interesting account of whaling life and of his stay in Hawaii. He claims to have tried cannibalism in the Marquesas, and to have encountered Perry's Japan expedition. The present work also includes discussion of whaling in the Indian Ocean as well as the merchant marine service in the northern hemisphere" - Hill. Hill 1222; Forster 74; Forbes 2335.