Two Years and a Half in the Navy; or, Journal of a Cruise in the Mediterranean and Levant, on Board the U.S. Frigate Constellation, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831.
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Year: 1832
Entry: Wines, Enoch Cobb. Two Years and a Half in the Navy; or, Journal of a Cruise in the Mediterranean and Levant, on Board the U.S. Frigate Constellation, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. 2 vols.
Author/Editor: Enoch Cobb Wines
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Two Years and a Half in the Navy; or, Journal of a Cruise in the Mediterranean and Levant, on Board the U.S. Frigate Constellation, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831.
Printer/Publisher: Carey & Lea
Language: English
Notes: The author attended synagogue services in Gibraltar (vol. 1, pp. 137, 141-43, 145) and Tunis (vol. 1, pp. 197-98). Notice his observation about Jewish and Maltese hawkers in Tripoli’s harbor area ("the most squalid, dirty, and degraded looking beings I ever saw," vol. 1, p. 128) For the Jews in Smyrna, see vol. 2, pp. 131-32 ("The Jews especially are beyond all endurance") and p. 144; Jews at Cassaba, a Turkish town famed for its melons, see vol. 2, p. 157. Bruntjen 17119.