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Open book A voyage for whaling and discovery round C. Horn into the Pacific Oceans under the protection of the right honorable lords commissioners of the...

Title Voyage for whaling and discovery round c. horn into the pacific oceans under the protection of the right honorable lords commissioners of the...

Creator Colnett, James, 1755?-1806

Date 1794

Place England--London, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean--Islands of the Pacific, South America, South America--Pacific Coast

Language English

Subjects Rattler (Ship), Seafaring life, Voyages and travels, Whaling

Description Maps cataloged separately.
Signed and dated at end: James Colnett November 2nd 1794.
Revised narrative (lacking journal entries, maps, and drawings, and dedicated to Sir Philip Stephens rather than John Pitt, Earl of Chatham) published as: A voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean. London : W. Bennett, 1798. Map, p. [377]-[378], published in 1798 by Aaron Arrowsmith with title: Chart of the Galapagoes.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Formerly known as Ayer MS 178a.
For more information, consult the Special Collections Info. File.

Summary Narrative, daily journal, maps, and drawings documenting the voyage of the Rattler to the Pacific coastal islands of South and Central America, and return, Jan. 4, 1793-Nov. 1, 1794. Narrative discusses stops at the Atlantic ports of Rio de Janeiro and Saint Helena; sailing weather, currents, winds, and routes; repairs and provisioning; whaling efforts; bottom measurements, latitude, longitude, terrain, plant and animal life, water, and safety of the various islands; and diet, diseases, and mental state of the crew. Also comments on Colnett's earlier voyages, accounts by previous island visitors, and the necessity of avoiding Spanish ports and vessels. Daily journal entries list longitudes, latitudes, temperatures, barometric pressures, and weather conditions. There are also twenty-eight watercolor drawings (mainly island and coastal views) and eleven maps (showing routes taken and islands explored)

Biographical/Historical Note British naval officer and ship's captain. In 1792 Colnett was nominated by the Admiralty to command the ship Rattler on an expedition to examine ports off the coast of South America that would allow British whalers to refresh and refit. Financed by commercial interests, the mission was also to return with a cargo of whale oil. The Rattler sailed in January of 1793, spending about a year whaling and evaluating and surveying harbors and bays on Pacific islands (Revilla, Gigedo, Cocos, Galapagos, St. Ambrose, St. Felix) from the Chile coast to Lower California.

Extent [6], 438 [i.e. 456] p., bound : ill., maps ; 31 cm

Format Diaries, Drawings, Manuscripts, Travel literature

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 3047

BibID 134251

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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