Deck and port, or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California : with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco
Deck and Port is an 1850 American travel narrative by the naval chaplain Walter Colton, published in New York and Cincinnati for general readers, recounting a voyage of the frigate Congress to California and South American and Pacific ports. The four engravings are small, loosely hatched woodcut-style scenes: three men in pointed hats and ponchos by a wall, a rider on a rearing horse, two figures in mid-century dress conversing, and a woman in a long hooded gown with a full skirt, giving a designer plain period costume and gesture references.
