These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.
Correspondence of the Samoan District of the London Missionary Society with the New Zealand Administration, Samoa.
The logbook describes a whaling voyage to the South Pacific apparently under a Captain Hardwicke. The voyage began in Sydney and took in Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Solomon Islands, Torres Strait, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea), Santa Cruz Group, Tikopia and New Zealand. There is a gap in the log from 2 February to 31 March 1857.
