Narrative of a Journey Round the World: Comprissing a Winter Passage Across the Andes to Chili, with a Visit to the Gold Regions of California and Australia, the South Sea Islands, Java, &

"A reprint of the New York 1854 edition...printed on noticeably poorer quality of paper...The author departed Bremen...bound for California via South America, and much of text is devoted to his experiences in the gold mines of California, and in San Francisco. Gerstaeker arrrived in Honolulu...December 10, 1850, on the Jane Remorino...Gerstaecker describes the town and his tours of the Honolulu fort, Nuuanu Valley, and the Pali. The text has extensive comments on a variety of theatrical performances...there were several shipwrecked Japanese in Honolulu, and he writes of Rev. S. C. Damon's assistance to these men. After a two-week stay the author departed in the Alex Barclay, an American built Bremen whaler...for Tahiti and Australia"--Forbes, David W. Hawaiian national bibliography.