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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; with observations on the manners and customs of; the inhabitantsLay, William

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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; with observations on the manners and customs of; the inhabitants

Name: 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; with observations on the manners and customs of; the inhabitants
Author: Lay, William

Lay, William

Globe Mutiny, 1824; Mili Atoll (Marshall Islands)

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                              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;

             WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS AND
                 CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS.


            BY WILLIAM LAY, OF SAYBROOK, CONN. AND
                CYRUS M. HUSSEY, OF NANTUCKET:

  The only Survivors from the Massacre of the Ship's Company
                       by the Natives.


                         NEW-LONDON:
           PUBLISHED BY WM. LAY, AND C. M. HUSSEY.

                            1828.




    INTRODUCTION.        v
    CHAPTER I.          11
    CHAPTER II.         27
    CHAPTER III.        50
    CHAPTER IV.         72
    CHAPTER V.          77
    CHAPTER VI.         98
    CHAPTER VII.       130
    CHAPTER VIII.      138
    CHAPTER IX.        154
    VOCABULARY.        165




DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT

                                        _District Clerk's Office._

Be it remembered, that on the twenty-fourth day of October, A. D.
1827, in the fifty-second year of the independence of the United
States of America, WILLIAM LAY and CYRUS M. HUSSEY, of the said
District, have deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the
Right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to
wit:

"A Narrative of the mutiny on board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in
the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824, and a Journal of a residence of two
years on the Mulgrave Islands, with observations on the manners and
customs of the inhabitants. By William Lay, of Saybrook, Conn. and
Cyrus M. Hussey, of Nantucket, the only Survivors from the Massacre of
the Ship's Company, by the Natives."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States entitled
"an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the Copies of
Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies
during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an act entitled "an
act supplementary to an act, entitled an act, for the encouragement of
learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the
Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein
mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of
Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints."

    JNO. W. DAVIS,
        _Clerk of the District of Massachusetts._

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