The journal of a former U.S. army doctor serving as surgeon on the U.S. revenue cutter Reliance from Baltimore to San Francisco, and evidently enjoying a friendship with Michael A. Healy—a.k.a. “Hell Roaring Mike”—who would later become the first person of African-American descent to command a ship of the U.S......
![Item #9394 [Journal of a voyage to Madeira.]. Captain David Lynn](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9394_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742327093)
An eighteenth-century journal recording the nine-month stay in Madeira of a former Revolutionary War officer, written in the immediate wake of American independence, including his observations of life on the island and a detailed account of his illness and the variety of attempted cures. Captain David Lynn sailed from Maryland.....
![Item #10132 Journal of a Voyage in Bark Marion [Log of the Whale Ship Marion]. Clothier...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10132_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779197408)
A log from the golden age of American whaling, kept—unusually—by the ship’s captain, the notorious “Crazy Peirce,” the “Prince of the Pessimists,” including sixty whale and fluke stamps and offered, even more unusually, with a long, minutely detailed letter of instruction from the ship’s owner regarding the voyage. The logbook.....