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DELANO, Amasa
A Narrative of Voyages and Travels...
Printed by E.G. House Boston, 1817. Octavo, with two engraved plates and a folding map of Pitcairn Island; moderate foxing and staining as in all copies but an extremely good copy in the original marbled sheep binding. First edition of an important Pacific narrative and the source for Melville's Benito Cerino.
Delano describes three Pacific voyages between 1790 and 1807, including visits to China, New Guinea, the East Indies, India, Chile, Australia, and Hawaii. The most celebrated aspect of the book is the long section on Bligh, the Bounty, and Pitcairn Island - really the first published account of the fate of the mutineers - which includes the first publication of several manuscripts, including one by Captain Edwards of the Pandora and others by Folger, who discovered the mutineers on Pitcairn and interviewed Adams himself.
The book is of great Hawaiian interest too as Delano visited the islands in 1801 and 1806, including a call at Lahaina - where he comments on the effect of introducing one of Vancouver's bulls from Hawaii. Delano writes about Kamehameha I and one of his sons whom he took away on his first visit. He also gives a significant account of the eight shipwrecked Japanese from Osaka who were found at Oahu in 1806.
Delano is also interesting on the history of Tasmania: he met Collins in 1803 shortly after his arrival at the Derwent. Sealing in Bass Strait, he found himself an early subject of protectionism by a Port Jackson gang who considered he had no right to be there. The Australian section contains natural history notes - one of the earliest sources of such knowledge for American readers - while the description of sealing in Bass Strait between Victoria and Tasmania is one of the earliest to survive.
Ferguson, 673; Forbes, 'Hawaiian National Bibliography', 463; Hill, 463; Hocken, p. 37; Judd, 51; Sabin , 19349; Spence, 'Bligh', p.15.
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