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    <title>Narrative of N. Byron Smith, 1851-1854</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Smith, N. Byron.</namePart>
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  <abstract>Narrative by Smith describing his experiences aboard the whaler Nile of Greenport, N.Y., under the command of Capt. Conklin, and his voyage (1851 September 1-1854 March 12) to the whaling grounds in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific via the Azores, Cape of Good Hope, Indian Ocean, and New Zealand. Smith documents the methods of capturing whales and extracting whale oil, shipboard life, and his impressions of the people and culture of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and the Marquesas. Includes description of Smith's return to New London, Conn., via Cape Horn in March 1854 after having left the Nile in Hawaii and stowing away aboard the merchant vessel, Harriet Hoxie.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 16,625 (16,747).</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1976.</note>
  <note>Mariner of Pennsylvania.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
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      <namePart>Harriet Hoxie (Ship)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Nile (Whaler)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Voyages and travels</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Whale oil</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Whaling</topic>
    <geographic>Okhotsk, Sea of</geographic>
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    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>Greenport</geographic>
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    <geographic>Horn, Cape (Chile)</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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    <geographic>Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Hawaii</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Indian Ocean</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New London (Conn.)</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New Zealand</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Okhotsk, Sea of</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Pacific Ocean</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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    <occupation>Whalers (Persons)</occupation>
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