Melbourne, and the Chincha Islands; with Sketches of Lima, and a Voyage round the World.
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Link Singerman ID: supp1455
Year: 1854
Entry: Peck, George Washington. Melbourne, and the Chincha Islands; with Sketches of Lima, and a Voyage round the World. New-York: Charles Scribner, 1854. 294 p.
Author/Editor: Peck, George Washington
Location: New York, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Melbourne, and the Chincha Islands; with Sketches of Lima, and a Voyage round the World.
Printer/Publisher: Charles Scribner
Language: English
Notes: See pp. 105-6 for the author’s unflattering account of the foreign Jews, perhaps as many as 10,000, swarming into Melbourne, Australia ("It is generally supposed that they hold it no sin to cheat Christians, and to crucify each individual believer in the cross, afresh").