Journal of a Voyage from New York towards San Francisco, 1866

Journal of a Voyage from New York towards San Francisco, 1866

Journal of a Voyage from New York towards San Francisco, 1866, a personal log recorded by Edwin Mitchell of Belfast, Maine, aboard the ship IVANHOE. Notes by author on flyleaf: IVANHOE was built at Belfast, Maine. Launched Sept 21, 1865. Departed Belfast for New York Nov 10, 1865. Sailed from New York for San Francisco Jan 26, 1866. Then sailed San Francisco to Callas [sic], from August to October 1866. From there to Chincha Islands, Peru, in October 1866. Edwin Mitchell appears to have sailed with her from Belfast in 1865 to Chincha Islands and back to New York in 1867. edit: Callas is probably Callao, Peru.