  WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS AND ———————————— BY WILLIAM LAY, OF SAYBROOK, CONN. AND The only Survivors from the Massacre of the Ship’s Company ———————————— NEW-LONDON:
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT District Clerk’s Office. Be it remembered, that on the twenty-fourth day of October, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM LAY and CYRUS M. HUSSEY, of the said District, have deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the Right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: “A Narrative of the mutiny on board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824, and a Journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands, with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants. By William Lay, of Saybrook, Conn. and Cyrus M. Hussey, of Nantucket, the only Survivors from the Massacre of the Ship’s Company, by the Natives.” In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States entitled “an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned:” and also to an act entitled “an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act, for the encouragement of learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints.” JNO. W. DAVIS, S. Green, Printer. TO JOHN PERCIVAL, Esq. Who, under the auspices of Government, visited the Mulgrave Islands, to release the survivors of the Ship Globe’s crew, and extended to them every attention their unhappy situation required—the following Narrative is most respectfully dedicated, by WILLIAM LAY, & |
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