Mercantile journal kept in the Danish corvette Galathea [microform].

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Microfilm copy of original held by Rigsarkivet (National Archives), Copenhagen Denmark.

Available for reference.

The corvette Galathea made a voyage to the Pacific in 1845-1847. Nopitsch published a book in German on this in Hamburg in 1849. See item 1089 in Bibliographie de Tahiti et de la Polynésie Française by O'Reilly and Reitman (Paris, 1967).

Largely concerned with the daily expenses of the Galathea expedition while in different ports. There are also general remarks on the trade at each port. Remarks on the Hawaiian Islands appear on pp. 240-75 and on Tahiti on pp. 276-7.

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June 01, 2002