Lewis Monto - Coastal Views of North and South Sulpher Islands, 1832.

NOTES:

      Lewis Monto's sketches of North and South Islands of the Sulphur Islands group in 1832 originally found in his manuscript journal of the 1828-1830 whaling cruise of the Nantucket whale ship, Plough Boy, Nathan Chase, commander. Monto was an officer on this voyage.

      Missing from Monto's sketches is the middle and most important island of the group -- Iwo Jima. It's absence may be due to the existance at the time of William Bligh's coastal view of Iwo Jima on the admiralty chart of the islands. Bligh's drawing was made on Cook's third voyage. This chart was published in 1785.

      Sulphur Island is now named Iwo Jima. North Island is now named Kita Iwo Jima) and South Island is named Minami Iwo Jima.

      The sketches are now in the collections of the Nantucket Historical Association on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts.