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The importance of the Northwest Passage in the history of European and especially British expansion is well known. In the 40-year interlude of peace between Waterloo and the Crimean War, Britain could direct, with ease, a small portion of her fleet to polar discovery, and, by doing so, keep her Russian rival at bay, provide some employment and training for her officers, and contribute to the ends of science. Peards journal of the voyage of Captain William Beechey , RN, and HMS Blossom to the Pacific and Arctic in 1825-8 is a lucid account of one of the most comprehensive British naval voyages to the Pacific since the days of Cook, Vancouver and Broughton. The Blossom made her way via Cape Horn to the Pacific, called at various places within the Pacific rim, and searched in vain for the expeditions of Captain William Edward Parry and John Franklin expected at the Bering Strait. George Peard, the first lieutenant of the Blossom, gives detailed descriptions of the places visited and the inhabitants, among them Pitcairn Island and the Gambier, Tahitian and Hawaiian groups. No less valuable are his accounts of Kamchatka, California, the Northwestern extremity of North America, and various parts of South America. Peard had an inquisitive, scientific mind, and he wrote a clear discursive narrative which shows that British exploration in the early Pax Britannica bore many fruits - scientific, commercial and strategic. It also showed that the Northwest passage had again eluded the British, in spite of the careful planning of the Admiralty, the Colonial office and the Hudsons Bay Company and the painstaking execution of orders by such naval officers as Parry, Franklin, Beechey and Peard himself Two of the plates are now printed at the end of the book.

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To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey
The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of HMS Blossom, 1825-1828
Edited by Barry M. Gough
First published by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park - photo 1
First published by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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Founded in 1846, the Hakluyt Society seeks to advance knowledge and education by the publication of scholarly editions of primary records of voyages, travels and other geographical material. In partnership with Ashgate, and using print-on-demand and e-book technology, the Society has made re-available all 290 volumes comprised in Series I and Series II of its publications in both print and digital editions. For information about the Hakluyt Society visit www.hakluyt.com.
ISBN 13: 978-0-521-20079-0 (hbk)
WORKS ISSUED BY
THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
TO THE PACIFIC AND ARCTIC WITH BEECHEY
SECOND SERIES
NO. 143
ISSUED FOR 1972
Hakluyt Society
PATRON
H.R.H. THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, K.G., P. C ., K.T., K.P.
COUNCIL AND OFFICERS, 1972-3
PRESIDENT
Dr E. S. DE BEER, C.B.E., F.B.A.
VICE-PRESIDENTS
Professor C. F. BECKINGHAM
Sir ALAN BURNS, G.C.M.G.
Professor C. R. BOXER, F.B.A.
G. R. CRONE
Sir GILBERT LARRHWAITE, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.
Professor D. B. QUINN
COUNCIL (with date of election)
Professor J. w. BLAKE, C.B.E. (1972)
TIMOTHY COGHLAN (1971)
Sir HUGH DOW, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I. (1970)
G. E. O. EVANS (1970)
T. W. FREEMAN (1970)
B.J. GREENHILL, C.M.G. (1969)
Dr J. B. HARLEY (1972)
Lord JOHN KERR (1971)
Miss PHYLLIS MANDER-JONES (1969)
JOHN PISANI (1972)
PAUL PUTZ (1971)
Royal Geographical Society (Mrs DOHOTHY MIDDLETON)
Dr SUSAN SKILLITER (1969)
Mrs SARAH TYACKE (1971)
Dr HELEN WALLIS (1969)
Commander D. W. WATERS, R.N, (1972)
Dr GLYNDWR WILLIAMS (1969)
TRUSTEES
Sir PHILIP HAY, K.C.V.O., T.D.
Sir GILBERT LAITHWAITE, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.
The Right Hon. LORD RENNELL OF RODD, K.B.E., C.B.
HONORARY TREASURER
JOHN MAGGS
HONORARY SECRETARIES
Dr T. E. ARMSTRONG, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge Professor
EILA M.J. CAMPBELL, Birkbeck College, London WCIE 7HX
HON. SECRETARIES FOR OVERSEAS
Australia: D. McD. HUNT, The Public Library of N.S.W., McQuarie Street, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000
Canada: Professor J. B. BIRD, McGill University, Montreal
India: Dr S. GOPAL, Historial Division, Ministry of External Affairs, 3 Man Singh Road, New Delhi
South Africa: Professor ERIC AXELSON, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, S.A.
New Zealand: A. G. BAGNALL, The Alexander Turnbull Library, P.O. Box 8016, Wellington C.I.
U.S.A.: Dr W. M. WHITEHILL, Boston Athenaeum, 10 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108
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Mrs ALEXA BARROW, Hakluyt Society, c/o British Museum, London WCI
PUBLISHER AND AGENT FOR SALES AND DISTRIBUTION OF VOLUMES
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TO THE PACIFIC AND ARCTIC WITH BEECHEY THE JOURNAL OF LIEUTENANT GEORGE PEARD - photo 2
TO THE PACIFIC AND ARCTIC WITH BEECHEY
THE JOURNAL OF LIEUTENANT GEORGE PEARD OF H.M.S. 'BLOSSOM' 18251828
EDITED BY
BARRY M. GOUGH
CAMBRIDGE Published for the Hakluyt Society AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1973 - photo 3
CAMBRIDGE
Published for the Hakluyt Society
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1973
Published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press
Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London NWI 2DB
American Branch: 32 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y.10022
The Hakluyt Society 1973
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 72-88616
ISBN: 0 521 20079 2
Printed in Great Britain
Robert MacLehose and Co Ltd
The University Press, Glasgow
Contents
  1. F3
  2. F4
  3. i
  4. ii
  5. ix
Guide
Plates
Portrait of Frederick William Beechey, by George Beechey
( By permission of The Trustees of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich )
Pullout chart of the Harbour of San Francisco, by F. W. Beechey (published 1833)
( By permission of the California Academy of Sciences )
Pullout chart of Part of the North West Coast of America from Point Rodney to Point Barrow, by F. W. Beechey (published 1830)
( By permission of the Hydrographic Department, Ministry of Defence, Taunton, Somerset )
Plan of Pitcairn Island, by F. W. Beechey
( By permission of the Hydrographic Department )
The Blossom in the Hawaiian Islands, by William Smyth
( By permission of The Trustees of the National Maritime Museum )
Pencil views of the Aleutian Islands, by F. W. Beechey
( By permission of the Hydrographic Department )
Figures
I am greatly indebted to the Trustees of the British Museum, the custodians of the George Peard journal, for permission to publish this edition.
I also wish to express my thanks to a number of persons who have assisted in this enterprise. Dr Glyndwr Williams of Queen Mary College, University of London, and General Editor of the Hudson's Bay Record Society, has encouraged me from the start and suggested improvements along the way. Professor A. Lincoln of the University of San Francisco has provided me with information on the Beechey voyage in relation to California. Miss M. J. Perry, Curator, Hydrographic Department, Ministry of Defence, Taunton, Somerset, has been very generous in her efforts to locate and copy documents and illustrations, and I owe her special thanks for her kindness in this regard.
Rear-Admiral P. W. Brock, C.B., D.S.O., lent me a copy of his dossier on H.M.S. Blossom. Over the years he has been most generous in supplying information and correcting my misconceptions. A. P. Fleming, National Librarian of Australia, supplied biographical information on F. W. Beechey. Iain Maciver, National Library of Scodand, provided copies of pertinent manuscripts in the Melville Papers. P. M. Bottomley of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland helped in the selection of illustrations. Professor James W- Scott, of Western Washington State College, placed his magnificent Happy Valley library at my disposal; for this act of generosity I am in his debt.
Professor John Caswell of Stanislaus State College, Turlock, California, unselfishly lent me his notes on the second expedition of Sir John Franklin, the findings of which appeared in his article, 'The sponsors of Canadian Arctic exploration; Part III 1800-1839', published in The Beaver, Outfit 300 (Autumn 1969). I acknowledge the kindness of the Governor and Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company and Mrs J. Craig, the Company Archivist, in allowing me to use copies of Professor Caswell's notes. Alan Cooke, Custodian of Manuscripts at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England, assisted and made more enjoyable my researches there, as did his associate, Clive Holland. I acknowledge the assistance of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, the Royal Geographical Society, and the National Maritime Museum. To Western Washington State College, I am grateful for grants in aid of research, and secretarial and cartographic help, and to Mr Gene Hoerauf of the Department of Geography there, I am grateful for drawing the two figures showing the tracks of the Blossom. Professor Eila M. J. Campbell, Joint Hon. Secretary of the Hakluyt Society, has been most helpful through the various stages in the preparation of this book. R. A. Langdon of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, The Australian National University, provided information about Eastern Polynesia.
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