Description

Polar Whaling: A Sea-Letter Narrative of a Cruise in the Okhotsk Sea in 1849 is an account of a whaling voyage of the bark Shepherdess of Mystic, Connecticut, written by the vessel’s first mate, William Henry Holmes of Mystic. The volume presented here is a typewritten transcription of Holmes’s manuscript, published by the Marine Historical Association of Mystic in 1948. The account was written from Lahaina, Mowhee, Sandwich Islands (Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii) and dated November 1, 1849. It is addressed to Holmes’s mother, brothers, and sisters. In ...