A Narrative of the Life, Travels and Sufferings of Thomas W. Smith: Comprising an Account of His Early Life, Adoption by the Gipsys; His Travels during Eighteen Voyages to Various Parts of the World… near the South Pole

Smith, Thomas W. Boston: Wm. C. Hill, 1844.
  • Whalemen's Reading
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Some of the text in the Hathi Trust version of this early whaleman’s memoir is illegible from over-inking in the original, but there is this account of a typical promise of conversion: