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AU PMB MS 199
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Mercantile journal kept in the Danish Corvette Galathea
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- 1845 - 1847 (Creation)
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1 reel; 35mm microfilm
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The corvette <I>Galathea</I> made a voyage to the Pacific in 1845-47. Nopitsch published a book in German on this in Hamburg in 1849. See item 1089 in <I>Bibliographie de Tahiti et de la Polynesie Francaise</I> by O'Reilly and Reitman (Paris, 1967).
Largely concerned with the daily expenses of the <I>Galathea</> expedition while in different ports. There are also general remarks on the trade at each port. Remarks on the Hawaiian Islands appear on pp.240-75 and on Tahiti on pp.276-7.
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Rigsarkivet (National Archives), Copenhagen, Denmark
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ms199