Stewart was in effect the missionary narrator of this somewhat odd circumnavigation in that it didn’t intend circling the globe until it was already on the Pacific Coast. He began on a different ship and then joined the round the world cruise aboard the Vincennes at Callao, Peru, on July 29th. [Note: there are variant editions of this work, with differing dates and paginations. The Google version of Vol. I does not indicate date but maybe 1832 rather than the first.
A Visit to the South Seas, in the U.S. Ship Vincennes, During the years 1829 and 1830; with Scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manila, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena.
Stewart, Charles S. Two Volumes. New York: John P. Haven, 1831.
- 1829-30 US Circumnavigation (W.C.B. Finch aboard USS Vincennes).
- Global Circumnavigations and Cape Horn Transits.
- Maritime Reading
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A Visit to the South Seas, in the United States Ship Vincennes, during the Years 1829 and 1830.
Stewart, Charles S. Two volumes. New-York: John P. Haven; Thomas George, Jr. Printer, 1833-.
- 1829-30 US Circumnavigation (W.C.B. Finch aboard USS Vincennes).
- Arctic Reading: United States
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Title page epithet: “A principal fruit of these circuits of the globe seems likely to be the amusement of those that stay at home.” Cowper’s Correspondence.
Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands during the Years 1823, 1824, 1825….
Stewart, Charles S. With an Introduction … by William Ellis. London: Fisher and Jackson, 1828.
- 1823-25 American Voyage to Sandwich Islands (aboard HMS Blonde).
- Maritime Reading
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The author is a somewhat sanctimonious American missionary who nonetheless enjoyed a conversation with Lord Byron, a naval officer and cousin of the poet whose morals he detested. There is a good deal of material towards the end of the book on providing religious literature, writing tablets, hymn-books, etc. for Sandwich Island natives in their native language—literacy training for the reading of the Bible.