One of two bound journals of Charles Henry Bennett of Pennsylvania who journeyed to California via ship, worked in the gold fields of California, and then sailed as a passenger on a freighter to Hawaii before his eventual voyage back home around Africa via the Cape of Good Hope. Volume one begins January 14, 1849 with five pages of entries to February 7, 1849, aboard the brig Osceola describing the beginning of Bennett's ocean travel around Cape Horn to San Francisco. Several missing pages precede the next set of entries that describe a subsequent trip to Honolulu, Hawaii beginning on November 11, 1849 through December 17, 1849. The third section, with entries dated Wednesday, October 31, 1860 to December 24 and then March 28-31 [1861], is a broken sequence, due to missing pages, concerning a trip aboard the ship Memnon to the Sandwich Islands.