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Logbook of the Parachute (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Andrew Jackson Cory, keeper unknown, on voyage from 1855 August 7-1857 May 10

Log, keeper unknown, relating to a whaling voyage to the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans and Okhotsk Sea. Includes descriptions of whales (blackfish, bowhead, finback, gray, humpback, killer, right, and sperm), seen or taken, accidents and death at sea, punishment on ship, and indigenous people; and whale stamps and inventories of whale oil and bone. Other places represented include Faial, Brava, Wanganui, Maui, Oahu, Rota Island, Saipan, and Rarotonga.

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