A NARRATIVE

OF

FOUR VOYAGES,

TO THE

SOUTH SEA, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN,
CHINESE SEA, ETHIOPIC AND SOUTHERN
ATLANTIC OCEAN, INDIAN AND
ANTARCTIC OCEAN.

FROM THE YEAR 1822 TO 1831.

COMPRISING

CRITICAL SURVEYS OF COASTS AND ISLANDS, WITH
SAILING DIRECTIONS.

AND AN ACCOUNT OF SOME

NEW AND VALUABLE DISCOVERIES,

INCLUDING THE

MASSACRE ISLANDS,

WHERE THIRTEEN OF THE AUTHOR'S CREW WERE MASSACRED AND
EATEN BY CANNIBALS.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S EARLY LIFE,

By CAPT. BENJAMIN MORRELL, JUN.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER,

No. 82 CLIFF-STREET.

AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS GENERALLY THROUGHOUT THE
UNITED STATES.

[Entered, according to Act of Congress, by J. & J. HARPER, in the year 1832, in the Office of the Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.]

TO THE

HON. LEVI WOODBURY,

SECRETARY OF THE U. S. NAVY,

THE

FOLLOWING PAGES

ARE

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

IN

TESTIMONY OF THE HIGH RESPECT ENTERTAINED FOR HIS TALENTS AND VIRTUES,

BY

THE AUTHOR.