A voyage to the North Pacific

the long version

The story begins 14 August 1804 in Bristol, Rhode Island, and ends in the same seaport over three years later, on 1 April 1808. After a quick voyage around Cape Horn and a stop at Newitti, D'Wolf begins his adventure in Norfolk Sound in Russian America, where he sells off part of his cargo to the Russians. After returning to Newitti, D'Wolf goes back to Norfolk Sound for repairs and the continuation of his adventure. When, in a conversation with Russian American Company German physician, Dr. Grigorii Ivanovich Lansdorff (Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, 1774-1852), D'Wolf indicates that he would rather sell his boat than repair it, Langsdorff offers to buy it. In a complicated deal, D'Wolf gets the smaller Yermerk, which he sends, along with his crew and furs, to Canton under his first officer. After a long winter at the Russian settlement, D'Wolf sails for Ochotsk in the Russisloff. The rest of the narrative is taken up with his journey to St. Petersburg and then back to Boston and Bristol.