The United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Commodore Charles Wilkes, made an extensive survey of many Pacific island groups. After rounding Cape Horn in March 1839, the expedition visited the Tuamotu Archipelago, Society Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and the Phoenix, Tokelau, Gilbert and Ellice (now Tuvalu) Islands. The expedition returned to the United States via the Cape of Good Hope in June 1842.

There are three sets of documents:<BR><BR>1. A narrative of the expedition by George M. Colvocoresses, a lieutentant.<BR>2. Sketchbooks made by George F. Emmons, 1839-41, an officer of the <I>Peacock</I><BR>3. Sketchbooks made by Henry Eld, Jr., 1838-42

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200.<BR><BR>This reel marks the beginning of the second part of the New England Microfilming Project. The information provided is set out in the same format as that of the first part, however, it should be noted that information given on the area of a voyage is confined to either 'Pacific Ocean' or 'Indian Ocean'. Details of voyages undertaken to areas other than the Pacific or Indian Ocean are not given in the PMB entries.

For indexes see <I>American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific</I>, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and <I>Where the Whalers Went</I>, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. ANN AND HOPE; Carter; 1798-99; Pacific Abstracts for the period 1798-1806 (Pacific and Indian Oceans) Please refer to the above indexes for further details.

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200.

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. CALIFORNIA; Smith; 1900-01; Pacific CANTON; Folger; 1851-55; Pacific CLAUDIA; Senna; 1919; FENELON; Smith; 1833-34; RAINBOW; Nichols; 1859-64; Pacific LEONIDAS; Howland; 1861-62; MARTHA; Folger; 1845-49; Pacific MOSS; Clark; 1833-36; Pacific RELIANCE; Howland; 1768-71; Pacific SEA QUEEN; Movers; 1866-69; Pacific SOUTH CAROLINA; Perry; 1835-37; Indian Ocean - Sailed to areas other than Pacific or Indian Ocean..

Minute Book, 1940-46.

Vance, a New Zealander, was a member of the South Sea Evangelical Mission who served at Makwanu, Malaita, from 1931 to 1940.

The 'notes' concern the languages of Wanoni Bay, Star Harbour and Makira, San Cristobal. Vocabularies are given for the Wanoni Bay and Star Harbour languages. It is not certain that the notes were compiled by Vance.

Langdon's book, The Lost Caravel, was published in June 1975 by Pacific Publications Pty Ltd, Sydney. The book puts forward the theory that the crew of a Spanish ship, the caravel San Lesmes, lost in the eastern South Pacific in 1526, played a prominent role in the prehistory of several Polynesian islands, including the Tuamotu Archipelago, Society Islands, Austral Islands, Easter Island and New Zealand. The San Lesmes was one of the ships of the expedition of Garcia Jofre de Loaisa which left Spain in July 1525 to obtain a cargo of spices in the East Indies.

Correspondence relating to research and other matters leading to the publication of The Lost Caravel. On the microfilm, the correspondence is preceded by a chronological list of letters from the author to individuals and institutions. The correspondence is microfilmed in alphabetical order in two sections: individual correspondence and institutions. Each section is preceded by a calendar.<BR>For original documents relating to the Loaisa expedition see PMB 135-140. See also PMB 999

The German-language periodical was published by the Gossner Mission, Berlin. The Mission was founded by Johannes Gossner, an evangelical of no denomination, whose aim was simply to spread the Gospel. In practice, this usually meant that his missionaries became attached to other organisations, such as the London Missionary Society. In its first 100 years, the Gossner Mission sent out 23 missionaries to Australia, five to the Chatham Islands, four to Polynesia, and five to Dutch New Guinea. The four who went to Polynesia were: Ernst Krause, a doctor, who was with the LMS in the Society Islands and on Rarotonga from 1843-67; Leopold Mohn and Julius Hones, who spent five months with Krause at Bora Bora in the early 1850s and then went to Rurutu for a few months; and Wilhelm Schmidt who took up service with the LMS on Savai'i in 1847 and remained with them until 1857. Even before he sent his first missionaries to the Pacific Gossner had been interested in it and published a lot of apparently second-hand material on Pacific missions, presumably 'lifted' from LMS and Methodist publications and translated.

The first 24 volumes of <I>Die Biene auf dem missionsfelde</I>. After Gossner's missionaries reached the Pacific, the magazine began to publish much first-hand material.

Correspondence relating to mission management, particularly to financial matters. See also PMB 549 for letterbook, 1934-36.

Hopkins (1869-1943) served as a missionary with the Melanesian Mission in the Solomon Islands from 1902 to 1925.

The autobiography fills 112 typescript pages.

Correspondence 1927-48:<BR>Reel 1: 1927 - 1936<BR>Reel 2: July 1936 - September 1946<BR>Reel 3: 1946 - 1948