History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 29 Last Pirates, 1867-1880
Levesque, Rodrigue (2005). History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 29 Last Pirates, 1867-1880. 29. Gatineau, Québec: Lévesque Publications. ISBN 978-0-920201-29-9.
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Abstract: HOM.29 (1867–1880) contains a wide array of ship logs, maritime reports, and narratives documenting activity across Micronesia, particularly in the Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, and Palau. Numerous vessels appear in these records, including the Courser, Elizabeth Swift, Sunbeam, Midas, Aurora, Sea Queen, Three Brothers, Eugenia, John Wells, and Norman Court, along with naval ships such as HMS Rinaldo, USS Jamestown, and vessels of the Royal Navy Flying Squadron. Their logs describe navigation, trade, and whaling activity around Nauru, Banaba, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Pingelap, Mokil, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Jaluit, and Wake Island, with accounts of shipwrecks, rescues, trading exchanges, and encounters with island communities. 
Several figures prominent in regional maritime trade and frontier activity appear repeatedly, including Benjamin Pease, William Henry “Bully” Hayes, David Dean O’Keefe (“King of Yap”), and traders and missionaries associated with Glover, Dow & Company, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and the London Missionary Society. Accounts describe trading stations and missions at places such as Ronkiti and Metalanim on Pohnpei, missionary work in the Gilbert Islands, and commercial ventures including timber extraction, copra and coconut oil trading, and attempts to establish plantations or settlements. Personal narratives and biographies—such as those of Ebenezer Allen Pitman, Benjamin Pease, and Bully Hayes—document the careers of traders, sea captains, and adventurers operating throughout the western Pacific. 
Colonial administration and regional politics also appear through Spanish government records from the Mariana Islands, including the leasing of Tinian, Agrigan, and Pagan to George Henry Johnston, population reports from Agaña, and documentation of Spanish officials and church authorities. Additional materials address labor recruiting in the Gilbert Islands, missionary voyages such as the John Williams II, U.S. naval intervention during the USS Jamestown cruise, and conflicts involving traders and island communities. Together these sources provide detailed references to locations, ships, individuals, and institutions active across Micronesia during the late nineteenth century. 
