A
NARRATIVE
OF THE
MUTINY,
ON BOARD THE
SHIP GLOBE,
OF NANTUCKET,
IN THE
PACIFIC OCEAN, Jan. 1824
AND THE
JOURNAL
OF A
RESIDENCE OF TWO YEARS
ON THE
MULGRAVE ISLANDS;
WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS AND
CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS.
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BY WILLIAM LAY, OF SAYBROOK, CONN. AND
CYRUS M. HUSSEY, OF NANTUCKET:
The only Survivors from the Massacre of the Ship’s Company
by the Natives.
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NEW-LONDON:
published by Wm. Lay, and C. M. Hussey.
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1828.
| INTRODUCTION. | v |
| CHAPTER I. | 11 |
| CHAPTER II. | 27 |
| CHAPTER III. | 50 |
| CHAPTER IV. | 72 |
| CHAPTER V. | 77 |
| CHAPTER VI. | 98 |
| CHAPTER VII. | 130 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | 138 |
| CHAPTER IX. | 154 |
| VOCABULARY. | 165 |
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT
District Clerk’s Office.
Be it remembered, that on the twenty-fourth day ofOctober, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-second year of the independenceof the United States of America, WILLIAM LAY andCYRUS M. HUSSEY, of the said District, have deposited inthis Office, the title of a Book, the Right whereof they claimas Proprietors, in the words following, to wit:
“A Narrative of the mutiny on board the Ship Globe, ofNantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824, and a Journal of aresidence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands, with observationson the manners and customs of the inhabitants. By WilliamLay, of Saybrook, Conn. and Cyrus M. Hussey, of Nantucket,the only Survivors from the Massacre of the Ship’sCompany, by the Natives.”
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United Statesentitled “an act for the encouragement of learning, by securingthe Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors andProprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned:”and also to an act entitled “an act supplementary to anact, entitled an act, for the encouragement of learning, bysecuring the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authorsand Proprietors of such copies,