The voyage of the Racoon; a "secret" journal of a visit to Oregon, California, and Hawaii, 1813
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16
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, Hawaii --Description and travel, Oregon --Description and travel, Pacific Coast (U.S.) --Description and travel, and United States --History --War of 1812 --Naval operations
Manuscript on paper of documents on the history of Hampshire, copied by Samuel Woodford, Canon of Winchester, from various sources, many in the possession of the Bishop of Winchester. Copies of Anglo-Saxon documents are done in imitation of the original scripts.
Overland journey across the Plains to Oregon /by William H. Frush, 1850-1852
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4
Abstract:
In 1850 Frush traveled from Missouri to Oregon by way of St. Joseph, Blue River, the North Platte, and Fort Laramie, where he met his brother John and Kit Carson. They continued by South Pass, Bear River, Soda Springs, Fort Hall, Fort Boise, the Dalles, and Portland. He records graves, the names and homes of other travelers, and ends his account with events in Oregon. The diary contains drawings of Chimney Rock, Court House Rock, profile of the Snake River, and a map of the Burnt River.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon --Baker County --Maps, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, and West (U.S.) --Maps
Manuscript on paper of a fair copy of the ship’s journal kept by the first mate of the pink Batchelor from 2 November 1669, off the Cape Verde Islands, to 4 April 1670, off the coast of Patagonia. The daily entries contain details of the Batchelor’s voyage, including wind measurements, soundings, and sightings of land, and are particularly full for February and March of 1670, the period when the Batchelor lost contact during violent weather with its sister vessel the Sweepstakes, commanded by Sir John Narborough, and began its solo journey back to England.
Description:
31 blank leaves at end not scanned., In ink., This copy, which is annotated by the Earl of Sandwich, may have been made for the Royal Navy’s investigation of the incident in early 1671, when the Sweepstakes was still supposed lost., and Verso of front flyleaf annotated by Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich identifying the pink Batchelor and its voyage to the Straits of Magellan "to make discovery of advantages to be had in Trade or otherwise There."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --History, Naval --Stuarts, 1603-1714, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Great Britain. Royal Navy --History --17th century, and South Atlantic Ocean --Discovery and exploration
Subject (Name):
Batchelor (Warship), Narbrough, John, Sir, 1640-1688, and Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1625-1672
Journal of a Voyage of Discovery in the Pacific and Beering’s Straits : on board H.M.S. Blossom
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27
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.
Subject (Geographic):
Pacific Ocean --Exploring expeditions
Subject (Name):
Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856, Blossom (Ship), and Wolfe, James, 1807-1848
Subject (Topic):
Meteorological records--19th century, Northwest Passage, and Voyages around the world
