A narrative of the shipwreck, captivity and sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute; :
who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's Island. /
by Horace Holden.

Description

Main Author

Holden, Horace, b. 1810.

Language(s)

English

Published

Boston : Weeks, Jordan & Co., 1839. [c1836]

Edition

4th ed.

Subjects

Holden, Horace, > Holden, Horace, / b. 1810.
Nute, Benjamin H.
Mentor (Ship : 1780-1781)
Shipwrecks.
Sonsorol-Tobi language.
Tobi Island (Yamagata-ken, Japan)
Palau Islands.
Captivity narratives.

Note

Lord North's Island is "also known ... [as] Nevil's Island and Johnston's Island" and, by the natives, as Tóbee. --p.[81]-82.
Running title: Narrative; on front board: Holden's narrative. -- "Appendix. Vocabulary of the language of Lord North's Island." p.[121]-125. -- Dated, p. 120, "Boston, November 1835."

Physical Description

xii, [13]-125, [1] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

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