Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Acushnet” in chapter 2.17 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I:
...ught school from 1837-40, and in January, 1841, sailed from New Bedford on a whaling voyage into the Pacific.
Upon the experiences of that voyage his principal work is founded.
The captain of the Acushnet , it seems, treated the crew badly, and Melville, with the companion whom he calls Toby, escaped from the ship to the Island of Nukuheva [Nukahiva] in the Marquesas and strayed into the cannibal valle...
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| † | Acushnet (Massachusetts, United States) | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
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