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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.

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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.
Lay, William and Cyrus M. Hussey.
Wm. Lay and C.M. Hussey, ( 1828), New London
16.5 cm. 168 pp.
Price: $750

First edition. This important narrative relates the bloody mutiny and murders perpetrated by harpooner and boatsteerer Samuel Comstock, who was himself murdered by natives on Mili Atoll. Lay and Hussey were the only survivors of this incident and were later rescued by Lieut. Paulding of the U.S. schooner “Dolphin.” Pages tanned and foxed. Rebound in cloth over boards with spine label. Attractive ownership signature of N.G.(?) Hildreth, Sag Harbor, 1829, possibly offspring of whaling master John Hildreth. For a detailed account of this wild adventure I hope you will read my book “Demon of the Waters,” available in hard copy or as a Kindle read on Amazon.