Wrecked among cannibals in the Fijis
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A hundred years ago the young men and boys living in New England seacoast towns could easily find in the forecastles of locally builtships, an opportunity to gratify a desire for adventure and a sight of foreign lands. Many of their shipmates would be neighbors or come from nearby towns and all who intended to follow the sea looked forward with anticipation and pride to the day when they might be able to ship as an officer or be given the command of a vessel. It was no unusual thing at that time for officers and captains to be under twenty years of age and the ship and the sea then possessed a...
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- WRECKED AMONG CANNIBALS IN THE FIJIS
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- FOOTNOTES:
- WILLIAM ENDICOTT’S NARRATIVE
- FOOTNOTES:
- A CANNIBAL FEAST AT THE FEJEE ISLANDS
- A FEW WORDS OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE FEGEE ISLANDS
- Officers and Crew of Ship GLIDE on her 14th Voyage
- PUBLICATIONS OF THE MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
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