[HMS SPITEFUL-- CAPTAIN'S LOG]. Manuscript "Captain's Letter Book" with entries dated from 28 August 1875 - 27 August 1876. 54 pages, folio, 315 x 200 mm., contemporary leather-backed marbled boards (slightly worn). PATROLLING THE RIVER CONGO, the log records daily activities of the HMS Spiteful, including a seaman's "mutinous behaviour" in refusing his duty after not being given enough time to finish his dinner. (He would go on to draw a knife on the 1st Lieutenant; he was eventually sentenced to two years and 48 lashes for his behaviour.) Details of a Royal Geographic Expedition and river piracies are also included. [With]: [HMS TURQUOISE -- CAPTAIN'S LOG]. pp. 60-290 record the activities of this ship serving in the Pacific from February 1880-May 1881.