Bill, Erastus. – What did explorers read?

Citizen: An American Boy’s Early Manhood Aboard a Sag Harbor Whale-Ship Chasing Delirium and Death around the World, 1843-1849, Being the Story of Erastus Bill who Lived to Tell It.

Bill, Erastus. Anchorage, AK: O. W. Frost, 1978.

Whalemen's Reading

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p. 49-50, aboard a whaler name Citizen, Bill arrives in Oahu: When the ship first comes into port, some papers circulate on board inviting us to call upon the missionary and seaman’s chaplain, the Rev. S. C. Damon.