Francis Allyn Olmsted, Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton, 1841)

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Francis Allyn Olmsted, Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton, 1841)
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1841
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A young passenger's account of the whaler North America's voyage of 1839-40 to the Pacific and the Sandwich Islands, with his own drawings, lithographed by Endicott. Read 14 Oct 2026 in the Internet Archive's copy; "The Attack" is in the Gallery.

  • Food (p. 151): "salt meats and hard bread, furnish by far the greater proportion of our food, and to be kept upon this diet for month after month is not the least privation of a seafaring life. Hence in whale ships, bound on long cruises, that dreadful disease, the scurvy makes its appearance more frequently than in any other class of ships."
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  2. title: "Francis Allyn Olmsted, Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton, 1841)"
  3. type: book
  4. date: "1841"
  5. url: "https://archive.org/details/incidentsofwhali00olmsrich"
  6. seen: image
  7. access: public
  8. ---
  10. A young passenger's account of the whaler North America's voyage of 1839-40 to the Pacific and the
  11. Sandwich Islands, with his own drawings, lithographed by Endicott. Read 14 Oct 2026 in the Internet
  12. Archive's copy; "The Attack" is in the Gallery.
  14. - Food (p. 151): "salt meats and hard bread, furnish by far the greater proportion of our food, and to
  15. be kept upon this diet for month after month is not the least privation of a seafaring life. Hence in
  16. whale ships, bound on long cruises, that dreadful disease, the scurvy makes its appearance more
  17. frequently than in any other class of ships."

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"The Attack," from Olmsted's Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, 1841"The Attack," from Olmsted's Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, 1841

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