Singerman ID#supp1455

Melbourne, and the Chincha Islands; with Sketches of Lima, and a Voyage round the World.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp1455

Peck, George Washington. Melbourne, and the Chincha Islands; with Sketches of Lima, and a Voyage round the World. New-York: Charles Scribner, 1854. 294 p.

Notes

See pp. 105-6 for the author’s unflattering account of the foreign Jews, perhaps as many as 10,000, swarming into Melbourne, Australia ("It is generally supposed that they hold it no sin to cheat Christians, and to crucify each individual believer in the cross, afresh").