History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 25 Dutallis Expedition, 1846-1852
Levesque, Rodrigue (2004). History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 25 Dutallis Expedition, 1846-1852. 25. Gatineau, Québec: Lévesque Publications. ISBN 978-0-920201-25-1.
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Abstract: HOM.25 covers the period 1845–1852, documenting the growing presence of commercial traders alongside the Pacific whaling fleet and the expansion of maritime networks linking Micronesia with New England, Sydney, Honolulu, Manila, and Hong Kong. The volume includes numerous logbooks and narratives from American, British, and Canadian whaling ships such as the Chariot, Virginia, Zephyr, William and Eliza, Splendid, Stephania, Uncas, Athol, Ann Alexander, Eliza Adams, and others. Geographic references span the Gilbert Islands (Kingsmill Group) including Arorae, Tamana, Kuria, Aranuka, Maiana, Tarawa, and Nonouti, as well as Nauru (Pleasant Island), Banaba (Ocean Island), and locations in the Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, and Mariana Islands including Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan, Agrigan, Pagan, and Sarigan. Ship encounters, provisioning stops, trading exchanges, and whale-hunting operations are recorded in detail, illustrating the dense movement of vessels and crews across Micronesian waters during the late 1840s. 
A major theme is the growing role of traders, beachcombers, and resident foreigners living among island communities. The volume includes narratives about Europeans and Americans settled in places such as Ngatik, Pohnpei, Agrigan, Nauru, and the Mortlock Islands, along with descriptions of trading in tortoiseshell, beche-de-mer (trepang), coconuts, pigs, and local produce. Notable individuals appearing in the documents include traders and sailors such as Ranald MacDonald, Andrew Jackson Pettyjohn, and various unnamed beachcombers acting as intermediaries between visiting ships and island communities. Accounts also describe encounters with island chiefs and local societies across Pohnpei, Kosrae (Strong’s Island), the Mortlocks (Satawan, Namoluk), Kapingamarangi, and other Caroline Islands, along with observations on language, canoe construction, settlement patterns, and trade practices recorded by sailors, missionaries, and travelers. 
The volume also documents colonial administration and naval activity across the western Pacific. Spanish officials and missionaries in Guam, Agaña, Umatac, and the Mariana Islands appear in census reports, administrative correspondence, and infrastructure records such as repairs to Fort Santa Cruz and other colonial installations. The book includes the detailed Dutaillis Expedition (1847–1848) sent to the Mulgrave (Mili) Islands to investigate the disappearance of the whaler Angelina’s crew, along with surveys of Arorae, Banaba, and the Marshall Islands, providing early geographic and ethnographic observations of the region. Additional documents describe shipwrecks, maritime violence, and cross-cultural encounters across Micronesia during the late 1840s, including incidents involving whaling crews and island communities in the Gilbert Islands and surrounding archipelagos. 
