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Excerpt from Journal of a Cruise of the United States Schooner Dolphin, Among the Islands of the Pacific Ocean: And a Visit to the Mulgrave Islands; In Pursuit of the Mutineers of the Whale Ship Globe, With a Map
IN the year 1824, the crew of a whale ship, called the Globe, belonging to the island of Nan tucket, mutinied while in the Pacific Ocean, mur dered the officers in latitude about eight degrees south, longitude one hundred and sixty degrees west, and carried the ship to the Mulgrave Islands, where it was pro posed by the chief mutineers to burn her, and form a settlement. Here-they land ed a great part of the stores, sails, rigging, dzc. But some of the crew, who had no part in the mutiny, taking advantage of the others' being on shore, cut the cables, just at the dusk of evening, and, making sail, stood out to sea with a fine breeze. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
