Walter Colton 
Deck and Port; Or Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California [PDF ebook] 
With Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. ON joining the United States frigate Con gress, fitting for sea, at Norfolk, and destined to the Pacific, I commenced a journal, in which I sketched down the incidents of each day, as they occurred. It was more a whim of the hour, than any purpose connected with the public press. It was a diverting experiment on the monotony of a sea-life; was continued because it had been begun — and the present volume is the result. The streamlet’ flows from gathered drops.