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").