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Chapter 1: DECK AND PORT; OR, INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS TO CALIFORNIA. WITH SKETCHES OF RIO JANEIRO, VALPARAISO, LIMA, HONOLULU, AND SAN FRANCISCO.
By Walter Colton
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A first-person shipboard journal recounts a long cruise from the Atlantic into the Pacific, detailing daily routines, storms, nautical hazards, and life among the crew. Interspersed with sea passages are descriptive sketches of ports such as Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco, offering observations on urban scenes, local customs, political and religious life, and modes of travel and labor. The narrative blends anecdotal humor, moral reflection, and practical seamanship, combining diary entries with landscape and city portraiture and general travel reportage.

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Title: Deck and port

or, incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California. With sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco

Author: Walter Colton

Release date: February 11, 2023 [eBook #70022]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: A.S. Barnes & Co, 1850

Credits: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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COMMODORE R. F. STOCKTON.

United States Navy

DECK AND PORT;
OR,
INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE
IN THE
UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS
TO
CALIFORNIA.
WITH SKETCHES OF RIO JANEIRO, VALPARAISO, LIMA, HONOLULU, AND SAN FRANCISCO.

BY
REV. WALTER COLTON, U. S. N.,
AUTHOR OF “SHIP AND SHORE,” ETC.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY A. S. BARNES & CO.,
NO. 51 JOHN-STREET.
CINCINNATI:—H. W. DERBY & CO.
1850.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year Eighteen Hundred and fifty,
By A. S. BARNES & COMPANY,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Stereotyped by
RICHARD C. VALENTINE,
New York
F. C. GUTIERREZ, Printer,
No. 51 John-street, corner of Dutch.
TO
THOMAS I. WHARTON, ESQ.
OF PHILADELPHIA,
This Volume
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY HIS FRIEND
THE AUTHOR.