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JOURNAL
OF A
CRUISE
OF THE
UNITED STATES SCHOONER DOLPHIN,
AMONG THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN;
AND A VISIT TO THE MULGRAVE ISLANDS,
IN PURSUIT OF THE MUTINEERS OF THE
WHALE SHIP GLOBE.
WITH A MAP.
By Lieut. HIRAM PAULDING, of the U. S. Navy.
NEW-YORK:
G. & C. & H. CARVILL.
M,DCCC,XXXI.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year onethousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by G. & C. & H. CARGILL,in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.
NEW-YORK:
LUDWIG & TOLEFREE, PRINTERS,
No. 73, Vesey-street.
PREFACE.
The principal inducement of the author, inpreparing the following Journal for publication,originated in an idea that a plain narrative of aa cruise through an unfrequented part of theocean, comprising a particular description of agroupe of Islands, never before explored, andforming, perhaps, the latest inhabited portion ofthe globe, might not be without interest. It isbelieved, that, in habits, opinions, and modes ofliving, the people of the Mulgrave Islands,approach more nearly to a state of nature thanthose of any other known region. The objectof the CRUISE, of which a concise account isnow offered to the Public, necessarily led to amore full examination of these Islands than hasyet been made, or than it will ever probably bethought worth while to make again, except fora similar purpose.
The delay in publishing this little work originatedpartly in the hesitation of the author inoffering, and partly in that of the booksellers, inaccepting it; and the public must decide whetherthey were not both right in the first instance.It only remains for him to state, that all heaimed at or desired, was to give a plain,unpretending narrative, of what he saw, which,without presuming to merit applause, might atleast escape censure.
New-York, May, 1831.
JOURNAL
OF A
CRUISE OF THE U. S. SCHOONER DOLPHIN.
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In the year 1824, the crew of a whale ship,called the Globe, belonging to the island ofNantucket, mutinied while in the Pacific Ocean,murdered the officers in latitude about eight degreessouth, longitude one hundred and sixty degreeswest, and carried the ship to the Mulgrave Islands,where it was proposed by the chief mutineers toburn her, and form a settlement. Here they landeda great part of the stores, sails, rigging, &c.; butsome of the crew, who had no part in the mutiny,taking advantage of the others' being on shore, cutthe cables, just at the dusk of evening, and, makingsail, stood out to sea with a fine breeze.
The mutineers pursued the ship, as soon as theydiscovered she was underway, but, finding that sheoutsailed them, they soon gave up the chase, andreturned to the shore. The nautical instrumentsof every description had been tak