Coastal views of the Society & Sandwich Islands, c.1830 & 1832
by Lewis Monto.
Lewis Monto's coastal views of the Society & Sandwich Islands, c.1830 & 1832.
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Annotations:
"Society Islands"
Top: "Otaheita"
"Bearing East per Compas 8 leagues"
Bottom: "Eimeo"
"Bearing SSW 5 leagues"
[showing: "reef", "Entrance of the Harbour"]
"Sandwich Island"
Top: "Oreehoua"
"bearing SSW 3 leagues"
Bottom: "Oahu"
"N side"
NOTES:
Lewis Monto's sketches of the islands of "Otaheita" (Tahiti) and Eimeo (Moorea) of the Society Island group and the islands of Oreehoua and Oahu of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) in 1830 & 1832 was originally found in his manuscript journal of the 1828-1830 whaling cruise of the Nantucket whale ship, Plough Boy, Nathan Chase, commander. Monto was the ship's cooper on this voyage.
The sketches are now in the collections of the Nantucket Historical Association on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Last updated by Tom Tyler, Denver, CO, USA, Dec 3 2021.
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