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Browne, J. Ross.

Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, with Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. To Which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery, its Past and Present Condition.

Browne, J. Ross. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. [See Pamela Miller below for a lengthy quote from p. 110-11.].
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The cruise lasted from 1842 to 1845.

Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, with Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. To which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery, its Past and Present Condition.

Browne, J. Ross. New York: Harper & Brothrs, 1846.
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p. 43-4: about the Portuguese sailors in the forecastle:

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