"The Voyage of the F.H. Moore" and Other 19th Century Whaling Accounts

In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore --he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the ship's official logbook. Complementing this are excerpts from three other accounts of whaling voyages: Incidents of a Whaling Voyage by Francis Allyn Olmstead (1841); Etchings of a Whaling Cruise by J.