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Remarks on the ship Columbia's voyage from Boston on a voyage round the world.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boit, John, 1774-1829, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magee, James.
- Canton (Ship : 1835-1874).
- Commerce (Ship : Boston, Mass.).
- George (Ship).
- Hiram (Brig).
- Union (Ship : 1794-1808).
- Animals.
- Canoes and canoeing.
- Coffee.
- Death.
- Ethnology.
- Food.
- Fur trade.
- Health.
- Human sacrifice.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Manners and customs.
- Navigation.
- Passenger ships.
- Profit.
- Religion.
- Sales.
- Scurvy.
- Seafaring life.
- Ship captains.
- Ships--Cargo.
- Tribes.
- Voyages and travels.
- Weapons.
- Weather.
- Bermuda Islands.
- Chile--Cape Horn.
- China--Guangzhou.
- China--Huangpu Qu (Guangzhou Shi).
- China--Macau.
- Cuba--Havana.
- Falkland Islands.
- Hawaii.
- Indonesia--Jakarta.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Pacific Ocean.
- Rhode Island.
- Saint Helena.
- South Africa--Cape of Good Hope.
- Genre:
- Diaries
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1790-1802.
- Summary:
- Journal with log information kept by John Boit as captain, officer, or passenger on several voyages. Includes a journal of the Columbia on a voyage around the world, 1790-93, with stops made at the Falkland Islands, Northwest coast of America, Macau, China, and Hawaii with descriptions of trade with indigenous peoples; a log of a trading voyage around the world on the sloop Union, 1794-96, with stops made at the Falkland Islands, Hawaii, and Macau and Guangzhou, China; remarks on the Mount Hope on a voyage to the East Indies and back, 1801-02; and of the sloop Hiram from Charleston to Newport, 1797. Also included are a journal written on the snow-brig George on a trading voyage from Boston to Mauritius from 1796-97 recording navigation, longitude and latitude, weather, and courses. The ship leaked very badly and had to be sold at Mauritius. Boit secured passage on the ship Canton, commanded by Benjamin Coffin, from Mauritius to Charleston, South Carolina, 1797 with a brief stop made at Saint-Denis.
- Notes:
- A snow, or snow-brig, was a common sailing rig for a two-masted sloop, and was usually a merchant vessel. Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Massachusetts Historical Society catalogue.
- AMDigital Reference: Ms. N-1856
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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