COULTER, John.
Adventures in the Pacific with observations on the natural productions, manners and customs of the natives of the various islands; together with remarks on Missionaries, British and other residents, etc. etc.
Dublin, William Curry Jnr., 1845.
Octavo; original cloth, spine sunned, library stamp and shelf markings on title, otherwise a fine untrimmed copy.
First edition: with a detailed and lengthy account of the Marquesas in the 1830s where Coulter assumed native dress, was tattooed (described here in detail) and became involved in a tribal war.
A surgeon on the Stratford during her voyage in 1832-1836, Coulter describes his visits to various South American ports, and the Galapagos Islands, and gives an account of whaling, including his personal experience of killing a whale. A long stay was made at the Chatham Islands where he toured the island and found a skeleton in an abandoned hut. He made three stops at Tahiti and gives a general account and discusses the English missionaries there in some detail.
Hill, p. 70; O'Reilly-Reitman, 903.
