Adventure of the American Mind

Credits: Library of Congress Digital ID: mymhiwe 35168	Whaling click on picture	Lithograph of the port view of clipper ship under reduced sail in a snow storm. "The storm came from nowhere, ripping up hatchways, cataracting water into cabins. On deck, men tied themselves to rails, shouting deliriously, 'The Horn has come to greet us!'" (SD 29)
Credits: Library of Congress, American Memory, Westward by Sea	click on picture	View of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands: Correspondence of Ballou's pictorial. Click on the link above to read the article and evaluate the perspective of the writer toward the native islanders.
Credits: Library of Congress		Drawings Ships were in danger of catching fire and burning at sea. Sometimes the wind died down and they were becalmed for months.
Credits:: Library of Congress, DIGITAL ID mymhiwe c21002 . Full text and images are available. Search in collection by Strout, Robert B.	Journal of Robert B. Strout, Oct. 1858-Dec. 1861	Journals Ships logs record details of the slaughter and butchering of whales, disease, dehydration, starvation and worse, .
Credits: Library of Congress, DIGITAL ID mymhiwe log 343	Morrison (Ship) Journal, 1844-1846.	Shark Dialogues gives us an accurate taste of life on a whaler. Dying from hunger and thirst, sailors resorted to conspiracy and mutiny as well as cannibalism. Read about this and similar events in the journal of Rev. Thomas from 1844-1846. Both images and text are available from the link under the picture.
Credits: Libreary of Congress DIGITAL ID mymhiwe logf91	Scenes in Honolulu - No. 9 Sad Accident	Published Articles Crew members often suffered injury; Mark Twain's famous novel, Moby Dick, is based on a real-life event. It was not unusual for a whaling ship to arrive at its destination with only a small fragment of its original crew. Considering both the hardship and the booty, would you have taken the risk?
Credits: Library of Congress DIGITAL ID mymhiwe du625b6 1847	A residence of twenty-one years in the Sandwich Islands	Books Some migration to the islands was motivated by missionary zeal rather than by a desire for profit. Before too long, the indigenous population had almost all been converted. Read some of this account of an extended missionary expedition. What are your thoughts on their endeavor?
Credits: Library of Congress, DIGITAL ID mymhiwe 562111	View of the islands of Woahoo in the Pacific, as visited by C.E. Bensell in 1821.	Look closely at the representation of the islands in this drawing. Considering other pictures and accounts you have seen, what does it tell you about the artist?
Credits: Library of Congress, DIGITAL ID mymhiwe 32265	click on picture	Be sure to download Mr. Sid if you can and use your magnifying lens for a close up look at the peope and architecture of Honolulu in 1854. Think about what these drawings tell you about the impact of "haole" on the culture of the island.
Credits: Library of Congress, DIGITAL ID mymhiwe logs87	"More Decency and Order: Women and Whalemen in the Pacific"	Read this article which give a woman's perspective of being on a whaling ship and seeing the islands and their culture in the 1840s. How does she tell the story differently from the journals above? Joan Druett