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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Remarks on the Ship Columbia's Voyage from Boston on a Voyage Round the World |
| Reference | Ms. N-1856 |
| Library | Massachusetts Historical Society |
| Date | 28 Sept 1790 - 23 April 1802 |
| Author / Creator | Boit, John |
| Description |
Journal with log information kept by John Boit as captain, officer, or passenger on several voyages. Includes a journal of the Columbia on a voyage around the world, 1790-93, with stops made at the Falkland Islands, Northwest coast of America, Macau, China, and Hawaii with descriptions of trade with indigenous peoples; a log of a trading voyage around the world on the sloop Union, 1794-96, with stops made at the Falkland Islands, Hawaii, and Macau and Guangzhou, China; remarks on the Mount Hope on a voyage to the East Indies and back, 1801-02; and of the sloop Hiram from Charleston to Newport, 1797. Also included are a journal written on the snow-brig George on a trading voyage from Boston to Mauritius from 1796-97 recording navigation, longitude and latitude, weather, and courses. The ship leaked very badly and had to be sold at Mauritius. Boit secured passage on the ship Canton, commanded by Benjamin Coffin, from Mauritius to Charleston, South Carolina, 1797 with a brief stop made at Saint-Denis. |
| Document Type | Logbook, Manuscript, Journal |
| Theme(s) | Trade and Commerce |
| Keywords | navigation, weather, cargo, wildlife, death, climate, health, scurvy, indigenous peoples, hostility, fur trade, coffee, social anthropology, Indians, food, conflict, traditions, human sacrifice, Kanaka, weapons, canoe, ship captain, passenger, sales, profit, seafaring, tribe, voyage, religion, repairs |
| Countries | USA; China; Africa; Mauritius; Cuba |
| Places | Boston; Hawaii; Strait of Juan de Fuca; Sunda Strait; Jakarta; St Helena; Macau; Guangzhou; Pacific Ocean; Rhode Island; Falkland Islands; Cape of Good Hope; Huangpu; Nootka Sound; Cape Horn; Bocca Tigris; Burmuda; Havana; Caribbean; St Thomas |
| Ports | Boston, USA; Guangzhou, China; Hunagpu, China; Charleston, USA; Newport, USA |
| Ships | Columbia, Union, George, Canton, Mount Hope, Hiram, Commerce |
| People | James Magee; Captain Crowell; Captain Kendrick; Captain Gray; Benjamin Coffin |
| Additional Information |
A snow, or snow-brig, was a common sailing rig for a two-masted sloop, and was usually a merchant vessel. Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Massachusetts Historical Society catalogue. |
| Copyright | Massachusetts Historical Society |
