Excerpt from A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824: And the Journal of a Residence of Two Years on the Mulgrave Islands, With Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants In 1786, the number of British ships engaged in the whale fishery to Davis's Strait and the Greenland seas was 139, besides 15 from Scot land. In 1787, notwithstanding the bounty had been diminished, the number of English ships was 217, and the following year 222. The charter right of the island of Nantucket was bought by Thomas Mayhew, of Watertown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.