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University of Hawaii Press for Friends of the Library of Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii. 1967. Facsimile Reproduction of the Third American Edition of 1822. pages 220; Endpaper maps; hardcover in pictorial dust jacket [protected]; mint condition new. The author, an English seaman sailing with the Russian American Company from 1806 to 1812, spent over a year convalescing in the Hawaiian Islands. He resided with King Kamehameha for three months of his stay, so that his account describes both the life of the king's household and that of the commoners. Includes a narrative of tthe author's shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his subsequent wreck in the ship's long-boat: with an account of the present state of the Sandwich Islands, and a vocabulary of their language.