Etchings of a Whaling Cruise: With Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. To which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery ...

John Ross Browne

Harper & Brothers, 1846 - Offshore whaling - 580 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER I: 1
• A new Friend Examination by the Fitter A Sailors Boarding: 14
• X: 20
• CHAPTER VI: 47
• A Gam Departure from Terceira Pico Island of Fayal: 76
• Quarreling Aft A Row between the Captain and Mate Return: 104
• Make the Cape de Verdes Isle of Sal Bonavista Isle of: 147
• Approach the Equator Sketch of an old Whaleman John Tabors: 165
• Cross the Equator Martin Vas Rocks Isle of Trinidad Bill: 205
• Isle of Makumba Woodcutting and Hot Weather Arrival: 224
• Cruelty to a Portuguese Boy Make the Comoro Isles Visit: 264
• CHAPTER XIV: 283
• CHAPTER XV: 308
• Description of Zanzibar Imaums Harem Castle Antiquities: 328
• CHAPTER XVII: 357
• Superstitions of the Inhabitants Hassan and the Devil Jeram: 384
• Gambling Horseracing on the Nazee Moya Warlike Exercises: 419
• CHAPTER XX: 444
• Make St Helena Preparations to go Ashore Dinner at the Con: 450
• Sketch of a good Captain Amusements Danas Narrative A: 476
• Fate of my Comrades Narrative of the Sufferings of my Friend: 484
• Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the European: 511
• Statistical Tables showing the Number Tonnage and Value of: 533
• Beales List of Cruising Grounds with Observations: 549
• Anatomical and Physiological description of the Sperm Whale: 569
• Specimens of the Sowhelian Language: 575

Bibliographic information

• Title: Etchings of a Whaling Cruise: With Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. To which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery ...; Volume 501, Issue 9 of American culture series; Volume 19 of Willey whaling collection
• Author: John Ross Browne
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers, 1846
• Original from: Princeton University
• Digitized: Dec 5, 2008
• ISBN: 0608439541, 9780608439549
• Length: 580 pages