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10 July 2018

Veracruz, Mexico

Friday 8th – very cloudy weather all day with fog and drizzling rain. At 3 P.M. saw the light house on San Juan de Ulloa & at […]
10 July 2018

Yellow fever

Monday 11th – fine weather. Slight headache in the morning, which gradually increased till that night it became unsupportable & forced me to turn in at 6 […]
10 July 2018

Havana & slaves

Friday 29th June – when for the first time the weather being very fine, I stayed up to see our entrance into Havana. The wind being foul, […]
10 July 2018

Voyage home

Sunday 1st July – fine weather. This morning at 5 oClock set sail for England in company with his Majesty’s sloop of war the Rose abound to Portsmouth. A […]
10 July 2018

Account of Expenses

Expenses during 2nd Mexican Voyage 1832 28th April At Jacquemel 40 Cegars (very bad) – 1s Other expenses – 3s 2nd May At Jamaica 2 Queen shells – 5s Work […]
10 July 2018

Voyage 10 – Jamaica and Mexico 1832

Second Voyage to Jamaica & Mexico Sailed 26th March 1832 – Returned 6th August 1832 Absent 19 weeks James begins the notes of his tenth voyage with […]
10 July 2018

Barbary Piracy

A study into the effects of Barbary Piracy on England and Cornwall In 1677 a Falmouth mother wrote a letter to the Bishop of Exeter requesting […]
10 July 2018

The Empire Garden

Plant hunters and scientific networks around Falmouth The sub-tropical garden, populated with many varieties of exotic plant: rhododendrons, camellias, giant trees, ferns, magnolias; is a beautiful […]
10 July 2018

Ship’s Company

Robert Snell – Commander John Geach – Master James Williamson – Surgeon Charles Williams – Mate James Evenet – Boatswain Aug.s [Gustavus] Glason – Carpenter James Pashbee – Steward James Rowe – Steward’s Mate […]
10 July 2018

Veracruz, Mexico

Friday 8th – very cloudy weather all day with fog and drizzling rain. At 3 P.M. saw the light house on San Juan de Ulloa & at […]
10 July 2018

Yellow fever

Monday 11th – fine weather. Slight headache in the morning, which gradually increased till that night it became unsupportable & forced me to turn in at 6 […]
10 July 2018

Havana & slaves

Friday 29th June – when for the first time the weather being very fine, I stayed up to see our entrance into Havana. The wind being foul, […]
10 July 2018

Voyage home

Sunday 1st July – fine weather. This morning at 5 oClock set sail for England in company with his Majesty’s sloop of war the Rose abound to Portsmouth. A […]
10 July 2018

Account of Expenses

Expenses during 2nd Mexican Voyage 1832 28th April At Jacquemel 40 Cegars (very bad) – 1s Other expenses – 3s 2nd May At Jamaica 2 Queen shells – 5s Work […]
10 July 2018

Voyage 10 – Jamaica and Mexico 1832

Second Voyage to Jamaica & Mexico Sailed 26th March 1832 – Returned 6th August 1832 Absent 19 weeks James begins the notes of his tenth voyage with […]
10 July 2018

Barbary Piracy

A study into the effects of Barbary Piracy on England and Cornwall In 1677 a Falmouth mother wrote a letter to the Bishop of Exeter requesting […]
10 July 2018

The Empire Garden

Plant hunters and scientific networks around Falmouth The sub-tropical garden, populated with many varieties of exotic plant: rhododendrons, camellias, giant trees, ferns, magnolias; is a beautiful […]
10 July 2018

Ship’s Company

Robert Snell – Commander John Geach – Master James Williamson – Surgeon Charles Williams – Mate James Evenet – Boatswain Aug.s [Gustavus] Glason – Carpenter James Pashbee – Steward James Rowe – Steward’s Mate […]