Notes on the West Indies, vol. 1 of 2 (Registro nro. 118042)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | F1601 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pinckard, George, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1768-1835 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Notes on the West Indies, vol. 1 of 2 |
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| Edition statement | Second edition |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-11-24 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Richard Tonsing, MWS, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Notes on the West Indies, vol. 1 of 2" by George Pinckard is an epistolary travel narrative written in the early 19th century. It presents a British army physician’s on-the-spot letters from a Caribbean expedition, mixing travel reportage with sharp social and medical observations on colonial society, slavery, Indigenous peoples, and the ravages of yellow fever. The volume traces his departure from England, the Atlantic crossing, and first approaches to the islands through a careful, humane, and often clinical eye.<br/><br/>The opening of the volume frames the work as private letters later prepared for publication, with the author stressing their hastiness, immediacy, and the added material of a revised edition. The narrative then follows his movements from Southampton to Portsmouth: admiration of an English camp’s discipline, anxiety about West Indian “seasoning” fever, and a contrast between English gloom and French buoyancy. He sketches Portsmouth’s dockyard, the captured Tigre, and the exemplary Haslar naval hospital, alongside the town’s rougher scenes. Delays, tempests, and shifting orders mark the embarkation: a frantic scramble for provisions, makeshift quarters aboard the Ulysses, and a devastating gale that scatters and damages the convoy. Transferred to the Lord Sheffield after a perilous small-boat episode and rescue by a frigate, he finally sails with the fleet, first in grand array, then into recurrent storms that separate the ships and leave him helplessly watching a distressed vessel. Opening sealed orders, he aims alone for Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, battling weeks of gales while noting the ship’s stout seamanship—a sea-tossed beginning that sets the tone for the journey to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
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| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | West Indies -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Slavery -- West Indies |
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| Uncontrolled term | Barbados -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Guyana -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Pinckard, George, 1768-1835 |
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| Uncontrolled term | English West Indian Expedition, 1795-1796 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Yellow fever -- Guyana |
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| Uncontrolled term | Indians of South America -- Guyana |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/notesonwestindie01pinc https://archive.org/details/notesonwestindie02pinc">https://archive.org/details/notesonwestindie01pinc https://archive.org/details/notesonwestindie02pinc</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77322">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77322</a> |
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