AND A VISIT TO THE MULGRAVE ISLANDS,
IN PURSUIT OF THE MUTINEERS OF THE
WHALE SHIP GLOBE.
WITH A MAP.
By Lieut. HIRAM PAULDING, of the U. S. Navy.
NEW-YORK:
G. & C. & H. CARVILL.
M,DCCC,XXXI.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by G. & C. & H. CARGILL, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.
NEW-YORK:
LUDWIG & TOLEFREE, PRINTERS,
No. 73, Vesey-street.
PREFACE.
The principal inducement of the author, in preparing the following Journal for publication, originated in an idea that a plain narrative of a a cruise through an unfrequented part of the ocean, comprising a particular description of a groupe of Islands, never before explored, and forming, perhaps, the latest inhabited portion of the globe, might not be without interest. It is believed, that, in habits, opinions, and modes of living, the people of the Mulgrave Islands, approach more nearly to a state of nature than those of any other known region. The object of the CRUISE, of which a concise account is now offered to the Public, necessarily led to a more full examination of these Islands than has yet been made, or than it will ever probably be thought worth while to make again, except for a similar purpose.