Cruizing Under the "stars and Stripes", Being the Private Journal of Richard LeRoy Parker

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The journal begins with a three-page biographical insert on different paper and in another hand by "I.G." [Isaac J. Greenwood], the owner in 1895 who also provided the title. The accounts describe Parker's tours of duty, life on board ship, and the places he saw. On various ships he visited Bombay (India), Colón (Panama), Fort Pickens (Fla.), Canton (Guangzhou], China, Havana (Cuba), Honk Kong (China), Honolulu (Hawaii), London (England), Macau (China), Manila (Phillippines), Monrovia (Liberia), Pensacola (Fla.), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), and Veracruz (Mexico). He mentions in several places about the conditions of black in Haiti, and the former slaves he transported to Liberia for the American Colonization Society.