RESIDENCE OF ELEVEN YEARS IN NEW HOLLAND AND THE CAROLINE ISLANDS: BEING THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES F. O'CONNELL. EDITED FROM HIS VERBAL NARRATION

by O'Connell, James F.:

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Book desription: Boston. 1841.. 265pp. 16mo. Half antique calf and marbled boards, leather spine label. Bit tanned, else very good. Second edition, after the first of 1836. O'Connell first gained employment as a cabin boy at age eleven. During his residence in New Holland (Australia), he accompanied British surveyor Oxley on a six-month exploring expedition, gaining some knowledge of the aborigines and the history of the colony. Later he was shipwrecked in the Caroline islands where he lived for five years. After time spent in prison, possibly for piracy, he was sent to Canton, travelled overland to Peking, then headed home. "O'Connell's description is the first extensive ethnographic account of the island of Ponape" - Day. HILL 1250 (ref). FERGUSON 3268. DAY 44.

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