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- Creator
- Dryad (Ship)
- Call number
- MssCol 845
- Physical description
- .08 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
- Dryad logbook, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
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- Request an in-person research appointment.
This logbook of the British ship of war H.M.S. Dryad contains entries made between February 22, 1831 and August 16, 1832. Commodore John Hays was its commanded and the tender, "Black Joke," was kept by C.W. Otway while the Dryad cruised off the west coast of Africa, touching at Sierra Leone, the Princes' Islands, and Ascension Island. From there, the ship traveled to Spithead, England. There is occasional mention of slaver traders captured by other British ships. Logbook contains two sketches of islands visited
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Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
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