![[WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG of Captain Francis Fisher, aboard the Swift, New Bedford and at sea [Indian Ocean, Pacific], 22 December 1841 – 11 May 1845, 137 whale and ship stamps, 398 written pages, folio (350 x 210mm). (Scattered excisions.) Contemporary half calf.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12139_0200_000(whaling_manuscript_log_of_captain_francis_fisher_aboard_the_swift_new102704).jpg?w=1)
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[WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG of Captain Francis Fisher, aboard the Swift, New Bedford and at sea [Indian Ocean, Pacific], 22 December 1841 – 11 May 1845, 137 whale and ship stamps, 398 written pages, folio (350 x 210mm). (Scattered excisions.) Contemporary half calf.
Captain Fisher pilots the Swift from New Bedford towards the Indian Ocean, stopping at the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, where all hands are employed baking and storing meat to replenish supplies, before pushing further east, whaling off New Holland in 1842. He sails past the Navigator Islands (Samoa), along the Equator and up to the waters off Japan, encountering heavy weather. Having cruised back to Hawaii for the second time in the voyage, Fisher records 'Foure men down with the Scurvy' on the approach to the islands (8 October 1844). Descriptions of chasing whales in longboats and details of the progress of the Swift through the Tropics are interspersed with more personal entries; on the advent of the new year 1843, for example, Fisher is in reflective mood – 'I acknowledge my sins and imperfections are many … and pray God to be merciful to me a sinner’ – and apparently using the ship's log as something resembling a confessional. Starbuck 374.
Captain Fisher pilots the Swift from New Bedford towards the Indian Ocean, stopping at the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, where all hands are employed baking and storing meat to replenish supplies, before pushing further east, whaling off New Holland in 1842. He sails past the Navigator Islands (Samoa), along the Equator and up to the waters off Japan, encountering heavy weather. Having cruised back to Hawaii for the second time in the voyage, Fisher records 'Foure men down with the Scurvy' on the approach to the islands (8 October 1844). Descriptions of chasing whales in longboats and details of the progress of the Swift through the Tropics are interspersed with more personal entries; on the advent of the new year 1843, for example, Fisher is in reflective mood – 'I acknowledge my sins and imperfections are many … and pray God to be merciful to me a sinner’ – and apparently using the ship's log as something resembling a confessional. Starbuck 374.
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