Hooe, George Mason:

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[ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF UNITED STATES NAVAL OFFICER GEORGE MASON HOOE, DESCRIBING HIS TOUR OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM 1832 TO 1834 ABOARD THE U.S.S. CONSTELLATION, INCLUDING LIFE ON BOARD ... A United States Navy officer's remarkable and lively journal chronicling two years spent sailing to every corner of the Mediterranean on board the U.S.S. Constellation in the early 1830s. George Mason Hooe was sailing master on board the Constellation, during which time he was also appointed a lieutenant. As the ship travels across the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to Turkey and everywhere in between, Hooe provides thoroughly detailed and opinionated observations on natural and historical landmarks (including Pompeii and Herculaneum), foreign cultures and peoples (especially young women), and remarkable events he encounters along the way. His journal also gives an intriguing description of life in the eastern Mediterranean in the wake of Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire. Hooe's diary offers special insight into the character and behavior of the Constellation's commander, Captain George C. Read, whose imperious nature is described, and whose rash actions imperiled the health of his crew during a cholera epidemic in Turkey. George Hooe had been to the Mediterranean before, in the mid-1820s as a crew member of the U.S.S. North Carolina, and on occasion contrasts his earlier experiences with his fresh observations.George M. Hooe's journal was formerly in the collection of th

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