Carl Johan Alfred Skogman (1820-1907), a Swedish baron, surveyor, captain in the navy, member of parliament and draftsman was an officer on the frigate Eugenie on its voyage around the world in 1851-1853. This chapter is an account of the visit to Guayaquil, Ecuador, where the frigate encountered the American whale ship George Howland which had been recently deserted by the pirates who had taken the vessel at Charles Island (Floreana or Santa Maria Island) in the Galapagos Islands. Skogman's account of the pirate's depradations is one of the best first-hand accounts of this matter.

      Carl Johan Alfred Skogman (1820-1907), a Swedish baron, surveyor, captain in the navy, member of parliament and draftsman was an officer on the frigate Eugenie on its voyage around the world in 1851-1853. This chapter is an account of the visit to the Galapgos Islands, where the frigate encountered the Ecuadoran victims of rape and murder committed by the pirates at Chatham Island en route to the South American coast.

      Nils Johan Andersson (1821–1880), was a Swedish botanist who accompanied the Swedish Naval frigate HSwMS Eugenie, Captain Christian Adolf Virgin, on its circumnavigation in 1852-1853. This chapter is an account of the visit to Guayaquil, Ecuador, where the frigate encountered the American whale ship George Howland which had been recently deserted by the pirates who had taken the vessel at Charles Island (Floreana or Santa Maria Island) in the Galapagos Islands. Andersson also witnessed the public execution of the captured pirates in the city.

      Nils Johan Andersson (1821–1880), was a Swedish botanist who accompanied the Swedish Naval frigate HSwMS Eugenie, Captain Christian Adolf Virgin, on its circumnavigation in 1852-1853. This chapter is an account of the visit to the Galapagos Islands, where the frigate met Ecuadoran survivors of the rape and murder on Chatham Island by the pirates when they stopped with the American whale ship George Howland on their way to the South American coast. Andersson did some scientific collecting on several of islands the frigate visited.

      Long-time Galapagos and Ecuador resident J.P. Lundh's brief history of the circumnavigation by the royal Swedish frigate, Eugenie in the 1850's. In this work of Lundh's just a short note on the George Howland affair in 1852 in which the Eugenie played a significant role.

      Lundh gives a short history of the Ecuadorian bandit Manuel Briones who was the ring-leader of the seizure of the American whaleship George Howland at Charles Island, Galapagos, in March 1852. The two Swedish accounts of the circumnavigation of the Swedish frigate Eugenie (Andersson and Skogman) were Lundh's sources.

      Captains of several of the ships destroyed in the arctic ice in September 1871 recount the whaling season and conditions of the ice prior to the decision to abandon ships and head to the Sandwich Islands.

      An illustrated popular account of the destruction of the American whaling fleet in the arctic in 1871.

      A description of the second arctic disaster for the American whaling industry. In the fall of 1876 twelve ships and perhaps dozens from their crews were lost due to ice near Point Barrow.

      A graphic presentation of the whaling disaster in the Arctic in the Fall of 1876..

      A reprint from the Providence Journal. So much is wrong in this article, it is difficult to know where to begin. While the George Howland hunted for whales in the Japan Sea and the area nearby, no verification of a visit to the open port of Hakodate, Japan has been found. Most of the article dealing with the seizure of the ship by convicts in the Galapagos Islands is factually wrong. One example – the sole survivor of the crew while in possession of the convicts was William B. Peacock the cooper, not the cook as written in the article. No American seamen or ships attempted to take back the George Howland.

      The references to claims made by the owners on Ecuador is somewhat true as a $55,000 claim was accepted by both countries, but it was some time before any payment was actually made.