WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG of Walter Bushnell (carpenter), aboard the brig Leonidas , Westport and at sea [Atlantic], 22 August 1855 – 5 May 1857, 24 whale stamps, 197 written pages , folio (340 x 195mm) , contemporary calf-backed boards (rebacked).
WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG of Walter Bushnell (carpenter), aboard the brig Leonidas , Westport and at sea [Atlantic], 22 August 1855 – 5 May 1857, 24 whale stamps, 197 written pages , folio (340 x 195mm) , contemporary calf-backed boards (rebacked). The well-kept log of the Leonidas was maintained by Walter Bushnell, ship’s carpenter and a scrimshander, for the Leonidas' journey to the Azores and along the Atlantic Coast of Africa. Daily entries include not just sightings or capture of humpbacks and sperm whales, but frequent sightings of killer whales; alongside the capture of turtles and fishing for food, Bushnell records ‘maiting’ with other whalers to catch whales, and subsequently dividing the oil, and makes over 20 separate references to the scrimshaw practised by himself and the crew. On the 22 March 1856 the author relays that they 'have had about a thousand negroes on board all of the afternoon', trading whilst moored in the the Gulf of Guinea, and the journal continues in the waters off the coast of East Africa. A page at the end of the journal features 23 whale stamps, each with a ship designation, apparently to credit the capture of each whale. The whaling brig Leonidas was later sold to New Bedford and was one of the Stone Fleet sunk off Charleston Harbor in 1861. Starbuck 528.
WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG of Walter Bushnell (carpenter), aboard the brig Leonidas , Westport and at sea [Atlantic], 22 August 1855 – 5 May 1857, 24 whale stamps, 197 written pages , folio (340 x 195mm) , contemporary calf-backed boards (rebacked).
WHALING] – MANUSCRIPT LOG of Walter Bushnell (carpenter), aboard the brig Leonidas , Westport and at sea [Atlantic], 22 August 1855 – 5 May 1857, 24 whale stamps, 197 written pages , folio (340 x 195mm) , contemporary calf-backed boards (rebacked). The well-kept log of the Leonidas was maintained by Walter Bushnell, ship’s carpenter and a scrimshander, for the Leonidas' journey to the Azores and along the Atlantic Coast of Africa. Daily entries include not just sightings or capture of humpbacks and sperm whales, but frequent sightings of killer whales; alongside the capture of turtles and fishing for food, Bushnell records ‘maiting’ with other whalers to catch whales, and subsequently dividing the oil, and makes over 20 separate references to the scrimshaw practised by himself and the crew. On the 22 March 1856 the author relays that they 'have had about a thousand negroes on board all of the afternoon', trading whilst moored in the the Gulf of Guinea, and the journal continues in the waters off the coast of East Africa. A page at the end of the journal features 23 whale stamps, each with a ship designation, apparently to credit the capture of each whale. The whaling brig Leonidas was later sold to New Bedford and was one of the Stone Fleet sunk off Charleston Harbor in 1861. Starbuck 528.
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