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LAY, WILLIAM and CYRUS M. HUSSEY. 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...New London [Conn.]: Published by Wm. Lay and C.M. Hussey 1828. 12mo, polished tan calf gilt, t.e.g., by Blackwell, a spine label lacking, extremities rubbed, some light marginal dampstaining. FIRST EDITION. Tipped in at rear is a manuscript transcript, with explanatory notes, by William Folger of a long poem on the mutiny, "The Young Mutineer," by Henry Glover of Nantucket (the poem first appearing in Pawtucket and Nantucket newspapers in 1824), 3 pp., 4to, c. mid-nineteenth-century.
"While nearing Fanning Island in the Line Islands, Samuel Comstock, boat steerer and harpooner [on the whaling ship Globe], led one of the goriest mutinies in Pacific history. Four officers were instantly and brutally murdered, and other sailors were forced to join the mutineers...while anchored at the Mulgrave Islands, Comstock was killed by his fellow mutineers, and part of the crew escaped to Valparaiso in the ship. The remaining part of the crew was attacked by the natives--only Lay and Hussey survived and were rescued months later by the U.S. schooner Dolphin"--Hill, p. 176; Forster, The South Sea Whaler 63; Howes L 158; Sabin 39467.
Provenance: Arnold Wood, bookplate.
"While nearing Fanning Island in the Line Islands, Samuel Comstock, boat steerer and harpooner [on the whaling ship Globe], led one of the goriest mutinies in Pacific history. Four officers were instantly and brutally murdered, and other sailors were forced to join the mutineers...while anchored at the Mulgrave Islands, Comstock was killed by his fellow mutineers, and part of the crew escaped to Valparaiso in the ship. The remaining part of the crew was attacked by the natives--only Lay and Hussey survived and were rescued months later by the U.S. schooner Dolphin"--Hill, p. 176; Forster, The South Sea Whaler 63; Howes L 158; Sabin 39467.
Provenance: Arnold Wood, bookplate.