Voyage of the Powhattan From Norfolk to Nagasaki
A 1855 letter from Nacagans Japan recounts the Powhattan cruise from Norfolk to Jeddo, detailing a peril-free voyage of about eighteen thousand miles, stops at Madeira, Africa, and China, and Nagasaki where a cholera outbreak caused fear but the crew recovered. The writer notes serene seas, long tropical heat, and the ship’s crew of four hundred, while describing Japanese reactions, religious rituals, and the dramatic cholera outbreak affecting Nagasaki and nearby ports.
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Powhattan
Rotor Travelier
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Japan
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Travellin
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Virginia
Jeddo
Hampton Roads
Bay of Jeddo
Eige
Atlantic
Madeira
Africa
Great
Indian Ocean
Acheun
Sumatra
Straits of
Molucca
Sea of ‘China
Grand Pacific
Chinese Empire
Canton
Pekin
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Yellow Sea
Gulf of Peehéle
Pei-Ifo
Equator
Tropics
United States
Cape of Good Hope
Neptune
China
Old Plymouth
Aman
New England
Old England
Quartermaster Durfee
Plymouth
Nagasaki
Harris
U. S
Pearson
Shantung
Nazacaki
Lord Kisin
Admiral Seymour
Es ‘Chis
Santos
Nick
Tavy
Ald Nick
Kinsiu
Nipon
Satsuma
Tam
Daughter of Rob Burns Lingers in Our Neighborhood
A Scottish neighborhood preserves a link to Robert Burns through his daughter Betty Burns. The piece recalls Annie Park and Burns's famous loves, noting Betty Burns as the cherished child of Jean and the poet, and praises the kindness and charity attributed to Mrs Burns amid societal scorn.
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Dean Armour
Jean Armour
Betty Burns
Mrs. Thomson
Fmily
Burnx—uhie
Juin O' Grant
Thomson
Ata
Morning Journal
Glasgow
Scolland
Eri
Robert Burns
Existance
John Thomson Ginbeth Burns
Pollokshaws
Annie Park
Anna
Burns
Jean
Death of the Wife of William Wordsworth at Rydal Mount
The death of Mary Wordsworth, aged 88, widow of William Wordsworth, at Rydal Mount in Westmoreland follows a short illness. She was a quiet yet influential literary figure, known to many in literary circles, whose loss is mourned. Though her sight declined in recent years, she remained cheerful and socially engaging, a valued domestic companion to the poet.
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Rydal Mount
Westmoreland
Mary
Wuoatas Wordsworth
Krew
Ferry Inn
Lorpoint
The Riches of the Poor and a Death on the Scaffold
A crowd at a roadside scaffold witnesses a four summers old child die from a fall while his mother laments a lost son. A rough laborer weeps, and passersby offer fragile comfort as a crowd contends with grief and whispered faith. Nearby a Hartford Deacon is mocked by a nasal patch gag during a church collection.
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Jimmy
Laney
Sexuu Nu Deacon
Hartford Conn
Elas
California emigration scales Sonora as Utah?
A jumble of brief items notes Mexicans migrating to Sonora from southern California, a gold vein near Cherry Creek worth 33000 in 25 days, a hotel fire alarm to sleeping guests, scattered maxims, humorous quips, and Austro-Italian military provisioning of Lombardy.
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California
Sonora
John Tarman
Leavenworth Times
Cherry Creek
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