The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen, Who Lost Their Ship While in a Boat at Sea, and Surrendered Themselves Up to the Malays, in the Island of Celebes
by Woodard, Captain David ; William Vaughn (Editor)
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London: Printed for J. Johnson ... by S. Hamilton. Very Good-. 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. xl, 252 pages; Continued TITLE: containing An Interesting Account Of their Sufferings from Hunger and various Hardships, and their Escape from the Malays, after a Captivity of Two Years and a Half: Also an account of the Manners and Customs of the Country, And a Description of the Harbours and Coast, &c. Together with an Introduction And an Appendix, containing Narratives of various Escapes from Shipwrecks, under great Hardships and Abstinence; holding out A VALUABLE SEAMAN'S GUIDE, And the Importance of Union, Confidence, and Perseverance, in the Midst of Distress. CONDITION: Contemporary full calf binding, six compartments at spine delineated by gilt lines, red leather title label in second compartment with gilt lettering; leather quite rubbed at edges (especially foredge of front board) and along spine hinges (leather cracked and tender, splitting at top of front hinge), leather darkened with crackling at spine; outer leaves foxed, text clean, but toned at inner corners with mostly faint tidemarks. Engraved frontispiece, two fold-out maps and two pages of engraved plates, as called for. PROVENANCE: Inscribed and signed on ffep "E. S. ?. ?. Rand / from / Jer. Fitch / 1818" likely inscribed to Elizabeth Simpkins Rand (1781–1859) from Jeremiah Fitch (1778–1840). Jeremiah Fitch was married in 1804 to Mary Rand (1776–1840), the sister of Elizabeth. The family resided in Boston. Massachusetts. PAGINATION: xl, 246, [4], 247-252 p., [5] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., maps, port. (engravings) ; OCLC Number 1102610932 CONTENTS: Frontispiece silhouette of Capt. Woodward, halftitle, title, Contents, Dedication; followed by The Narrative of Capt. David Woodward (pp. [1]-156); APPENDIX (157-236); "A list of a number of accidents, shipwrecks, and escapes, where great hardships and difficulties have been encountered, and which many have survived by perseverance" (pp. 237-248); "Three volumes octavo were printed in French in the Year 1790, containing a Number of Shipwrecks, of which the following is a Table of Their Contents" (pp. 249-251); "Books Useful to Seamen" [citing Robinson Crusoe in first place] (pp. 252). COLLATION: [a]8 b8 c4 B-R8 (R5 blank). Pagination: xl, 246, [4], 247-252 p., [5] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., maps, port. (engravings) ; OCLC Number 1102610932 Note: Leaf R4 (p. [1], 3rd group of paging) has the part title "Woodard's narrative", followed by a blank leaf, and likely meant to be inserted between p. xl and p. [1], 2nd group of paging. "In January of 1793, Woodard sailed in the American ship Enterprise from Batavia, bound for Manila. Sent off in a boat with live others to purchase provisions from another ship, they found themselves separated from their own ship after a storm. The seamen spent many days trying to locate their ship, but they were finally forced to land on Celebes, where one of them was murdered by the Malays and the others were taken into captivity. They escaped with the help of a Mohammedan priest and gradually made their way to Macassar and then back to Batavia. Included in the book is a geographical account of the island of Celebes, a brief vocabulary of the Malay language, and various concise accounts of other land and sea hardships, including an account of the Bounty survivors, the loss of the Pandora, and an account from one of the survivors of the Black Hole of Calcutta" [Silveira de Braganza, et al. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. 1974, p. 676] .
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- The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen, Who Lost Their Ship While in a Boat at Sea, and Surrendered Themselves Up to the Malays, in the Island of Celebes
- Author
- Woodard, Captain David ; William Vaughn (Editor)
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
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- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed for J. Johnson ... by S. Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1804
- Size
- 8vo.
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- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Pacific Voyages, Shipwrecks, 18th Century Shipwrecks, Island of Celebes, Malays, Indonesia, Castaways, Black Hole of Calcutta, The Bounty Mutiny
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