Captain's log for the H.M.S. Blonde's voyage to the Sandwich Islands 1824-1825.

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Captain's log for the H.M.S. Blonde's voyage to the Sandwich Islands 1824-1825.

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The volume is Byron's handwritten daily account of the H.M.S. Blonde's voyage from England to Hawaii and from Hawaii back to Valparaíso, Chile (June 10, 1824 to November 19, 1825). Byron records longitude and latitude, distance traveled, weather conditions, bearings, and barometer/thermometer readings. Along with those details, Byron records the daily activities and repairs on the ship, the punishments of sailors for various grievances, trading of supplies with other ships, and ports visited including Rio de Janeiro, Cape Horn, and Valparáiso. Byron also notes activities after the ship's arrival in Hawaii including the bodies of the Hawaiian royals taken ashore, his visits from King Kamehameha III and Queen Kaahumanu, the completion of the first monument for Captain James Cook, and the discovery of Malden Island.

522 pages, bound volume, 24 cm.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Kamehameha III, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1813-1854

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Cook, James, 1728-1779

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James Cook (b. November 7, 1728, Marton, Great Britan-d. February 14, 1779, Hawaii) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. He became an apprentice to some shipowners in Whitby. In 1759 he became master of his own ship, the Northumberland. The following winter, while laid up in Halifax, he studied mathematics and attained a sound knowledge of astronomical navigation. Cook went on to become an eminent circumnavigator. He made many geographical discoveries, ...

Byron, George Anson Byron, Baron, 1789-1868.

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George Anson Byron became the 7th Lord Byron of Rochdale after the death of his cousin, poet Lord George Gordon Byron. He was chosen to command the H.M.S. Blonde and return the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamamalu to Hawaii; both died of measles while visiting London in 1824. Byron published his account of the voyage in 1826. From the description of Captain's log for the H.M.S. Blonde's voyage to the Sandwich Islands 1824-1825. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Bo...

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Kamehameha II, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1797-1824

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