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Title: [Title and selected pages]
Contributor: Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856
Blossom (Ship)
Wolfe, James, 1807-1848
Published / Created: 1825-1828
Abstract: The journal describes the 1825-28 voyage of the ship Blossom from Spithead, Isle of Wright to Cape Horn, Chile, the Society and Hawaiian islands, then Kamchatka and the Bering Sea. The ship went back by way of California, Hawaii, the Philipines, and China. The ship continues through Awats Bay, Bering Strait, to San Francisco, Mexico, Chile, around Cape Horn to Brazil, the Azores,and Spithead. Appendices include notes of Blossom’s other voyages, an Esquimaux vocabulary, and star and weather readings.
Description: Blanks not included in pagination.
Extent: 27 p.
28 cm.
ill.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA MSS 533
Collection Title: Journal of a Voyage of Discovery in the Pacific and Beering’s Straits : on board H.M.S. Blossom / by James Wolfe, 1825-1828
Collection / Other Creator: Wolfe, James, 1807-1848

Format: still image
Genre: Charts (Graphic documents)
Diaries
Drawings
Logs (records)
Manuscripts
Watercolors (Paintings)
Subject (Geographic): Pacific Ocean --Exploring expeditions
Subject (Name): Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856
Blossom (Ship)
Wolfe, James, 1807-1848
Subject (Topic): Meteorological records--19th century
Northwest Passage
Voyages around the world

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