Master Mariner,
The Life and Voyages of Amasa Delano

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VOYAGE OF 1790-1794

• Sails from Boston on the Massachusetts March 28, 1790. Crosses equator May 18; sails Cape of Good Hope, Indian Ocean. Reaches Pigeon Island near Jakarta Roads on August 30; sails for Canton September 7. Arrives at Macau, 65 miles south of Canton, 40 miles west of Hong Kong, on Zhu (Pearl) River, September 30.

• With Commodore John McClure on the English ship Panther, April 1791. Arrives in the Babuyan Islands, north Philippines, May 14. Leaves for Palau Islands on May 18.

• Arrives at the Palau Islands June 10, 1791. Artingal War, June 22.

• Leaves Palau Islands June 27, 1791, for New Guinea and Moluccas. September 19, island of Buru; Ambon, September 28. Expedition to look for passage through southern part of New Guinea. Sails up "McClure's Inlet" to "Cut-Throat Creek" October 26. Sails November 17 for Timor.

• Leaves Timor March 24, 1792; Christmas Island, April 2; April 28, near Bengkulu, Sumatra. Sails August 17; arrives at Jakarta, on the island of Java, September 16.

• Departs Jakarta October 2, 1792; sails south coast of Belitung Island. Explores north Borneo, Philippine Islands; to Manila. Explores many islands in Sulu Sea, including Balembangan, Cagayan Sulu, the Tawi Tawi island group, and Jolo.

• At Jolo Island

• Returns to Palau Islands January 20, 1793. Delano transfers to McClure's smaller vessel, Endeavor. Returns to Canton through Taiwan Strait

• Arrives at Macau and Canton, March 1 793. Delano leaves McClure expedition with intention of returning to Boston. Sails on the American ship Eliza, bound for Holland, April 10. Spends weeks beating a way south through the China Sea to the Sunda Strait and the Indian Ocean. Reaches Mauritius on July 10. He is held up there for months, finally leaving Mauritius on board the Hector, February 1794.

• With a new partner, Captain Stewart, Delano sails for Bombay, by way of Mahé Island, Seychelles; along the coasts on the northern Arabian Sea; then southeast to Bombay, arriving end of April.

• Not long afterwards, Delano, with Stewart in the Hector, sails southeast along the Malabar coast to the Coromandel coast, southeast India. Stops at Madras; then on to Calcutta. Delano and Stewart seek refuge at Serampore, about 18 miles upriver from Calcutta. The ship Hector is sold.

• In late summer or early autumn, Delano, nearly penniless, sails for Boston with Captain Jeremiah Stewart on the Three Brothers, from Calcutta. Arrives Boston the latter part of 1794.
  
  

  VOYAGE OF 1799-1802

• Leaves Boston November 10, 1799, in the ship Perseverance, to sail around Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean. In the early part of voyage, languishes for some time in the equatorial doldrums. Lands at St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks. Passes west of the Fernando de Noronha Islands and reaches the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands January 1800. At Strait Le Maire February 8; against heavy seas, rounds Cape Horn March 12.

• Reaches Juan Fernández Islands March 26, and Más Afuero on March 31. In the course of this second voyage, as well as the third, Delano visits the coastal and island possessions of both Peru and Chile many times. Main ports of call in Chile are Concepción, Talcahuano, Valparaíso, Coquimbo. Principal islands visited are Santa Maria, the San Ambrosio and San Felix Islands, Juan Fernández Islands, and the Bird Islands. In Peru, the ports of Lima and Callao, Pisco Bay, and various islands.

• Encounter with the Spanish ship Tryal off the island of Santa Maria, February through April 1805.

• Easter Island and nearby islands.

• Galapagos Islands, first and second visits, 1800 and later.

• Leaves Galapagos Islands November 9, 1801. Visits Hawaiian Islands.
  
  

  VOYAGE OF 1803-1807

• Departs Hawaiian Islands on December 20, 1801, for Canton. Sails between Mariana Islands; passes south of Taiwan Strait. Leaves Canton for home April 1802. Arrives in Mauritius June 5, and departs July 23. Arrives in Boston November 1, 1802.

• Leaves Boston September 25, 1803, bound to the South Seas by way of Cape of Good Hope and the south cape of Australia.

• Arrives King Is/and, Bass Strait, Australia, March 3, 1804. Remains in Australian and Tasmanian waters until October 23. Sails for the southwest cape of New Zealand, passes "The Snares" November 1804, and the Bounty Islands, southeast of New Zealand, on November 7. The Perseverance and the Pilgrim rendezvous at Más Afuera in the Juan Fernández Islands. Arrives Bay of Pisco the end of 1804, or January1805.

• Lima and Callao, 1805.

• Leaves Lima March 27, 1806; spends time sealing at Lobos Islands, and leaves there June 21. Arrives Galapagos Islands on the 27th, and remains one month. Arranges for the Pilgrim to remain at seal work for another season, until September 4, 1807. The Perseverance continues on to Canton via Hawaiian Islands, where the ship arrives on September 8, provisions there, and sails September 30. Arrives in Macau November 10, 1806.

• Leaves Macau Roads for Boston, by way of Cape of Good Hope, January 27, 1807. Arrives in Capetown, South Africa, around the middle of May. Reaches Boston July 27, 1807.